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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by colesantiago on Thursday September 28, 2023 @09:40AM (#37689464)
So?

It's just a tree, why should we care about it just because a random person planted a seed a hundred years ago?

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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by mikhailfranco on Thursday September 28, 2023 @09:44AM (#37689521)
Yes, it's just a tree. A new tree can grow.

The Philistine instagrammers will be disappointed. So sad.

It's not a Roman tree.

A new tree literally grows (on) trees.

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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by jacquesm on Thursday September 28, 2023 @09:49AM (#37689581)
This is not about the instagrammers, it is about respect for heritage sites.
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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by 11235813213455 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:07AM (#37689799)
Can we say the same statement with human instead of tree?
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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by hiatus on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:49AM (#37690329)
Are you really comparing cutting down a tree to murdering a human being?
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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by 11235813213455 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:57AM (#37690477)
yes, a tree is highly beneficial to the environment, it takes a long time to replace it (10+ years for that size, which is important for many other species), a human is not often beneficial on the other side

we could compare human and an insect even, or a human and a whale, it's not really about size

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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by hiatus on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:34PM (#37692047)
When I was a lifeguard as a kid, I once arrived at the pool to find thousands of flies dead, floating on the surface. I thought to myself, "If these flies were humans, this place would be a battlefield," and went on with skimming the pool.
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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by 11235813213455 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:03PM (#37694119)
this shows how lethal are humans with their "swimming pools", that's more my thought, not just directly with that water but all the plastic, energy and resources wasted

I truely love flies, many beautiful species in trees, extremely useful and evolved insect

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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by sarchertech on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:01AM (#37690554)
Depending on the tree, not in your lifetime it won’t.

I have a rather nice oak tree that shades my house and my lawn. If someone chops it down, I could plant a new one. It would take 80 years to reach a similar size.

For many species it takes much longer than that.

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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by scott_w on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:30AM (#37691052)
As someone reasonably local to this tree, I can tell you that everyone here is pissed off. The anger is fuck all to do with Instagram.
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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by willis936 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @09:47AM (#37689552)
There's more narrative here. Trees fall all the time. Someone who feels entitled to the level of reclusiveness of one small patch of Earth taking something away from all other humans does not happen all the time.
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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by drunkan on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:15AM (#37689905)
Ah yes a member of the ever growing "why should I care about anything unless it personally effects me" crowd.

May as well proudly bear a tatoo of the word selfish on your forehead.

I imagine if someone chopped down a protected tree in an act of vandalism that you grew up seeing every day, carved your names in, or proposed under suddenly you would be filled with outrage after personally being effected.

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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by JdeBP on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:06PM (#37691623)
Carving your name in a protected tree is an act of vandalism too, note.
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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by colesantiago on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:38AM (#37699327)
wouldn't care, I know it's just a tree.

circle of life.

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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by andybak on Friday September 29, 2023 @04:58AM (#37701058)
How about the fact that other people cared and were upset? You can dismiss a tree's feelings on account of it not having any. But are you dismissing the (presumably) genuine distress of multiple people?
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Re:Iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall's 'Sycamore Gap' has been '... by dankent on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:11PM (#37691714)
Why care about anything?
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