why kill trees?

Question

if trees give us so much,oxygen, food ,medicine,why do people kill them just to make a profit?

Answer 1

I have a special fondness for trees - especially really, big old ones... It is beyond my comprehension that man continues to kill himself by wiping out the very resources created to sustain us. It is madness. A new tree scenario that just came to my attention a week or so ago - people are going onto other peoples property who have Maple trees and chopping them down. Can you imagine? Not for the maple sap, but for the wood. Apparently, there are luxury car manufacturers that use this wood for their interiors. People are now poaching them. Unbelievable.

Answer 2

You have to do it or eventually they'll get you. Look, we have more trees now than we did in the mid 1800s. If we hadn't been killing them all these years they would be growing right in the middle of our dens - heck, they'd be growing right through our computers.

You should be glad that there are far-sighted people in the world who have taken up the challenge to battle and kill this insidious tree invasion. Without this brave cohort group we would not only be between a rock and a hard place but likely between two very closely growing trees. And, that wouldn't be good. Surely you can see that.

Answer 3

That's a good question! I had to take a class with this woman who telling how she was having all the trees on her property removed and cut down just to get rid of them. I was looking at her in wonder... why wouldn't you want trees around your house? I thought she was crazy! There are several houses in my neighborhood where the removed all the trees... I think it's insane personally to do something like that. I have a zillion trees that surround my house and property... I could run nekked outside if I wanted to and no one could see me!! wooo hooo.. I don't though..I love the privacy, the shade, the awesome sound when wind blows through them...it almost sounds like we live at the ocean..it can get loud.. I personally would not buy a house or any property where trees have been removed.

Answer 4

Four Limericks on Life

He goes by the surname of Fauna
From the Platypus to the Iguana
He hunts and he stalks
And he constantly talks
Of the death and the killing he wanna

She goes by the surname of Flora
She's plankton, she's trees, a plethora
But lives in a dread
Avoiding his tread
He's Sodom, he's death, he's Gomorrah!

He eats, he digests, he excretes her
She's worried each time that he meets her
It's not so dismaying
To find him decaying
His syrup of nitrogen treats her!

Submerged in a hostile reality
Humanity flirts with finality
He yearns to transcend
But his carnal self wins
And he spends his whole life in banality.

JP - copyright 2002

Answer 5

I dont understand why they chop them down and dont replant more. When a farmer harvest his corn he always plants more. Doesn't make much sense to me. I know it will take a good 50 years for that tree to get big again but if the people who cut them down back in the 60's had planted after they killed the trees we would have more.

Answer 6

Good question. However, many trees are killed, apparently because people like to kill. Lets face it: when you go to the grocery store, you do not need a receipt that is a foot and a half long FOR ONE ITEM!

Answer 7

i agree to some extent. trees really do alleviate many environmental problems. it's the same as farming though, people need wood, people cut down trees. However, the methods in which they do are WASTEFUL (so much wood and unwanted trees left after clearing) and people should have to plant trees, then cut them down and sell them, not just buy an old-growth forest and clear it to the ground.

Answer 8

You question contridicts your "defense". You say that trees give us food and medicine, yet, how would trees provide this without killing them? We extract certain minerals/components from trees to make such things, and their "death" is required to do so.

It's the death of trees when not used to make food/medicine/oxygen. Such as, clearing a forest or field of trees to build a shopping center. Now that doesn't make sense to me at all.

Answer 9

Uhh houses and paper and everything we use on a everyday basis. We need trees man. We got plenty of em. Their not goin to wipe out all the trees to the point where it is hard to breath

Answer 10

Because people always think about the short term effects. Noone cares about the future untill it becomes the present. If cutting down trees gets really bad then I think we will soon have laws against it. That is, if people actually care.