Earth Day is Bad For the Environment

So this week at the college is Environmental Week, and today they're giving away those snazzy free saplings people tend to give away on Earth Day. But then I started thinking about it, and I saw a flaw in this whole process. I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here in Washington when people are handing out free tree seeds or saplings, it's almost always pines you get. For those who don't know, pines are very much forest trees, and are designed as such. Pines don't fair as well when left alone or in small groups, and when they get big, they tend to topple when a big storm comes though. Dozens of houses and businesses get squished every year from the same thing happening over and over - either developers thin the trees out too much, or people/businesses plant them in rows or standing alone because they look nice. You can now figure out what happens then. Anyway, my point to this is, that people who get a free tree will tend to plant them close to their house - creating more freestanding pines. Then, the damage caused by the trees when they fall needs to be fixed by more trees, thus causing the one tree they planted to lead to several more trees being cut down.

See? See? Earth Day is bad for the environment! I'm gonna go burn some tires...


The song for today is
"Revolution" by Worth Dying For