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Do not get me wrong i am not aganist Christmas or its sentiments, but Christmas is not about trees. We do not need to destroy our habitat and our environment to celebrate the birth of Christ, even Jesus won't approve of such practice.

Energy saving bulbs may be used on these trees as they are lit up in Rockefeller Center or in Washington D.C., but a really good 84-foot-tall Norway spruce is being killed in the process. This 60-year-old spruce comes from the Shelton, Connecticut and has been there for half a century but is killed within weeks for a moment's glee.

I admit, lighting the tree has great significance and is a HUGE popular event internationally, especially for the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony but that should not be used to deduct from the seriousness the environmental damages. That is why there are plastic trees and artificial trees we can use at home to save the environment and reduce the damages we do to our habitat.

I have to give credit the the organizers of the Rockefeller Center tree ceremony. They are planning to recycle the tree by using it as lumber for Habitat For Humanity projects in New York, the Gulf Coast, India and Brazil. They are also using 5 miles of wire and 30,000 multicolored LED lights, which uses less energy than the normal light bulbs. Using the new lights is expected to reduce the energy consumption of the holiday display from 3,510 to 1,297 kilowatt hours per day. That daily savings would be equal to the amount of energy used to power a 2,000-square-foot home for a month.

That is one way of thinking green. we can use these technological innovations to control holiday energy consumption and reduce our impact on the environment more. Live trees being cut down throughout America and the costs needed to cut, transport, purchase, decorate, discard and recycle these trees are enormous. So at the very least, American household should not use or buy live trees and rather start using artificial trees as Christmas trees.

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