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15 Reasons Those With Holiday Trees Should Make Them Permanent Ones, Not Axed Dead Trees
Over 81% of those who have holiday trees have ones they can use year after year and not axed trees. In 2020, massive fires by cattle ranchers in the Amazon rainforest, in Australia, in California, Colorado, and much of the US West, etc. have destroyed zillions of trees.
1. Massive tree cutting is the single biggest cause of global climate extremes, drought, fire. Each average sized tree evaporates 42 gallons of moisture daily becoming mist, then clouds, then rain.
2. Many parks and fields have been totally stripped of fir trees by those who have axed them so that they may slowly die in people's living rooms. The result is forests with no evergreens.
3. Raccoons, squirrels, birds, beehives and butterflies are smashed or evicted when the trees are axed.
4. Pine trees with dry needles coming into contact with hot electric lights are a cause of fire
5. Needle cleanup is a timewasting chore.
6. Amazon wants $115 for an axed tree, whereas artificial trees are good year after year.
7. Trash pick up of dead trees is expensive and an energy waste for cashstrapped municipalities
8. Landfills are clogged by the tree carcasses. Their replacement landfills create even more deforestation.
9. In terms of very large trees, lumberjacks have one of the 5 most dangerous occupations in the world.
10. USA Today, itself a deforester, reports that of 95 million households with a tree, 81% of the homes will have an artificial one.
11. Numerous studies by Chandra Bose, inventor in the 1890's of the radio which he demonstrated in 1895 ,several years before Marconi Luther Bank, research recorded in the book The Secret Life Of Plants etc. indicate trees have feelings and should not be killed.
12. Trees were not axed for Christmas until the 16th Century in Germany. Queen Victoria brought the tradition to England.
13. Small eggsacs of spiders can come into the home unobserved on the branches. In the warmer house temperatures they can hatch out.
14. Dogs and cats are sometimes confused smelling the outdoor fragrance of dead trees sometimes urinate on or under them.
15 Other holiday tree killers are Chritmas cards, wrapping paper, unrecycled cardboard. Yet 100% recycled, cotton, rice
options are available.
The Hallmark Channel, Amazon, Bloomberg and CBS have promoted the killing of fir trees for the holidays.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/12/11/fake-christmas-trees-more-popular-real-people-year/924980001/
http://web.mit.edu/varun_ag/www/bose.html
saiom shriver
Thank you to J Bohannon for the eggsac story.
Pricking needles in your skin
Watch the metal slide right in
Drawing deep, the vampire drinks
Life away in tubes and trays
Drip, drip, drip
Slipping away... Getting paler day by day
Drip, drip, drip
Fading away... Getting weaker as you pay
The wailing and the lights
Spinning in your mind
The bed is moving by itself
The mirror darkens to a door
The faces appear, getting near
The needles stab... into your veins
The needles stab... into your brain
The needles stab... into your eyes
The needles stab... into your mind
The swirling blood... streaks of white and red
The ghosts are back again!
In shadows and in black
The swirling blood... turning dark, the lights go out again!
Eat the flesh of other beasts
Gain your strength from the feast
Are they needles? Or are they thorns?
Are they spikes? Or are they horns?
Watch the liquid slowly fall
See the bodies slowly crawl
The Devils make the trade
like porcelain shavings
her skin began to crack
like a feather floating on thin air
she's losing strands of silken hair
the mirror spits back
all the qualities in which we lack
like needles in our eyes
poisoned with vain lies
she savored the quiet moments
devoid of conversation
the sound of still breathing
the footsteps that followed him leaving.
the closer I feel
the further you fade
the more I crave
the less you feed
so I chose not to need
a single thing..
will there ever be a solid bridge built to cross..?
a river below, to toss our fears away...
voices muffled, as she sank deeper
yet no hand reaches.
sunshine streaks through the surface
the only warmth you'll get
engulfed in cold fluids
& a heart weighed down by loves disillusions---
many reminders of what could have been..
all alone
she knew it all along..
Push, owe that was a bad spot, try again. Slide, pull back; red like a gyser inside the small world you created inside this plastic vessel for a false awareness of your surroundings. Everything is ok for the time that encompasses what just transpired; everything is ok.
Eyes close, the heart slows, things around dull but explode. You hear someone in the background not sure what is said, but you know it was pointless and you'd rather stay here instead. Don't worry everything is fine it can't be happening to me, yet this is really fucking here.
No more pain for another 2 to 4 minutes, i will set up another to extend this feeling, my best friend.
We are friends right? Ha answers you're company; yes but if you run out of money i will make you feel oh so sick and so bad death will seem not achievable only a far distant dream you wished for when your thoughts still processed on the neurons that now misfire.
The color of your eyes, nature has no mercy, please don't forget me we can share this? Yes we have shared this.
End
Clocks slow to a crawl time creeps it's deceit
Some days lack ambition no spring in my seat
Pounding heart sure to cave won't endure it's fatigued
Need mighty endowment strength stability proceed
This pen hits the paper racing heart slowly calms
I believe in my words the sweat dries from my palms
Trembling hands quieten be sturdy as steel
I take a deep breath... Now to enjoy how I feel
Shane Aaron
Dec 7 2013
I found my daughter dead today with a needle in her arm,
I thought I taught her right from wrong to shield her from such harm.
Authorities preach “Just Say No!”. Do they simply play the “game”?
Society yields a great cash flow…their naivety a shame.
Egos argue a dollar bill amount….
As innocent lives don’t seem to count….
A man decays behind steel bars…
He pays for his mistakes…. And ours.
The fight goes on…
What’s right?
What’s wrong?
The lesson’s learned.
Be careful what and how you enjoy.
This life….so brief….is not a toy….
…….I found my daughter dead today.
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