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Comment on BBC News - Sycamore Gap: Man in his 60s held after Hadrian's Wall tree cut down

People do this sort of thing all the time all because they don’t like the look of it, it’s blocking their light, or ruining their view. So I don’t understand why people are losing their shit over a single tree when old trees are cut down everyday for entirely selfish reasons. They’re the same thing.

Some trees are entire ecosystems by themselves. It’s no wonder we’re one of the most nature countries in the world.

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peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You surely can understand that this is a culturally significant tree to many people? That’s like if stone henge was knocked down and you said “rocks get knocked over every day”

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s a colossally dense take but it’s also from the person who described us as the “most nature country”
  
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  - guriinii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sorry, I meant nature depleted
    
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- tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  That’s like if stone henge was knocked down
  
  I mean, it was.
  
  In fact, it looks like bits are still coming back these days:
  
  https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/stonehenge-missing-piece-england-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
  
  Missing piece of Stonehenge monument returned after 60 years
  
  “The last thing we ever expected was to get a call from someone in America telling us they had a piece of Stonehenge,” Heather Sebire, English Heritage’s curator for Stonehenge, said in a news release.
  
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snacks@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
do you really not understand, or just being daft?

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- dildobaggins@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Option B.
  
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