Trees

Growing up in Sydney one could stand on a suburban hilltop and the vista was a sea of red roofs. Do the same thing now and it's all green tree cover. Fair enough, but when did trees become more important than people?

How can elderly folk like my mother be allowed to fall and break a shoulder when the council neglected to repair a broken footpath, constantly damaged by tree roots, rather than chop the bloody thing down?

Why is it that driving around residental areas at night one regularly needs high beam due to overgrown tree foliage reducing the effectiveness of street lighting, often rendered useless?

Trees; I'm over them.

Comments

[scott]

An unnecessary life form ?
Aside from providing oxygen, reducing carbon and being part of the natural landscape you make some fine points.

[Ex legionnaire]

Does this mean you will replace yourtrusty screwdriver weapon with a chainsaw Adrian?

[adrian]

Thanks for the reminder, Ex Leg, of a long neglected chainsaw in the shed. Got a stroppy hedge which needs taming.

[Dave]

You make a good point about removing trees. I think we should replace them with an environment friendly rail system and remove vehicles off the road and reduce the number of taxi's being allowed to operate. The environment would benefit for this.......
In 500 words or less...do you agree we have to many taxis on the road.

[adrian]

Dave, I Googled 'envirnmentally friendly rail system' and learned that electric trains are friendlier than diesel trains. And, re your point, petrol cars.

Yet given the increased power capacity needed to supply this new rail system using coal burning power stations and the resultant increased CO2, then would not a rail system drawing upon nuclear power be the best solution?

Regarding taxis, off the top of my head, the more people who relinquish their cars to use taxis the better the air quality. And the less taxis the better for me!

However I suspect that relying soley upon public transport, which includes taxis, is only cost effect and sustainable within a 15 klm radius from the CBD.

Related reading: Metro a $12b disaster, says buried report.

[king of new york hacks]

The English did that to Ireland....burned all the trees , so if you prefer bogsides and peat, get out the chainsaw and make way for a new Irish experience in Australia !! I'll give it a go mate !!! LOL

[Rainer the cabbie]

Since you are only a young fellow and have the memory of looking over red tiled roofs instead of green vistas, I think it is refreshing to think that there is hope for the ugly site that the western mortgage belt of Sydney is right now.
The greener the better, sorry to hear about your mum and the slack council that should look after the footpaths.