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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie Actually if you have a tree farm and you're constantly cutting down trees and replacing them, you basically have a carbon absorption factory. Trees need CO2 to grow, and once trees reach maturity they stop absorbing more CO2 than they emit. The "plant mor treez" CO2 reduction theory only works if you then cut them down and plant new ones when they're done growing.

I get what you are saying.


From a C02 perspective you might be right but you have to understand that trees convert CO2 to oxygen, and it isn't simply the absorption of CO2.

I don't want to test your worldview - but there is more to a tree than simply its ability to help remove c02 from the atmoshphere. it helps with soil conversion - feeds fungi, and animals. Pine for instance is a wonderful food source - high source of vitamin c, and smells good. Cedar is much the same in terms of usefulness. All uses of trees don't require the tree to be killed, there is non destructive agroforestry.

Just think if people didn't cut down trees for christmas would they even pay attention to them .. it is a pagan ceremony adopted by the romans, it actually traces back to tree worship - so in that sense it is probably the most tree huging thing - only at one point they decorated living trees outside... (perhaps the antipaganness of christianity metamorphesised to the point of killing the tree.. maybe charlemagne tried to convert them.. but they stood strong and so were cut down as pagan) I'm not sure when this started to change but I bet it relates to cold weather and a need for firewood.

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So there's a solid argument to going out and cutting down your own Christmas tree.

I hear you. I understand your perspective. Personally I think the most tree hugerish thing you can do is go out help plant some trees and skip the killing and decorating point. Of course decorating a tree won't per se do a lot of damage.

Hey it happens for a reason. Its not like I don't use paper.

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Originally posted by ******** I don't want to test your worldview

Thanks, this made me laugh.

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Originally posted by get nyce this thread should be about weed

that's the first thing i've ever seen you post that made any sense.

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Originally posted by Kenny Rogers edit: but now finally suspended

He's suspended?

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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie I know I'm supposed to be all about LED Christmas lights, but I hate them. They look like death. Im going to continue to buy incandescents until they figure out how to make LEDs look warm and inviting. Does this take me off the tree-hugger list?

Soon you'll be able to buy Christmas trees that glow like streetlights

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Originally posted by Omega_M Soon you'll be able to buy Christmas trees that glow like streetlights

This is amazing, and likely the most amazing thing I would like to live long enough to see.

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That's pretty incredible.

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