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It is interesting to realize that just the other day I was traveling through the local shopping center with my sister and brother, we decided to walk through a Christmas tree lot, does it make sense to cut down a tree so it can shine bright over the holidays? After which the tree is going to die and end up in a landfill somewhere. Certainly it could be recycled and used as a natural fertilizer or just reused. To think the landfill is the final destination but it appears that the first stop is the local garbage bin or on the side of a road somewhere, it does no good there.

Otherwise it may of lived a long life and helped the environment as it was, instead of being replanted with another that would take so long to grow. In my opinion, a mature tree is more effective then a seedling in helping the environment. Consider how long it will be for that tree to be replaced and therefore, the gap of time between that, would it not make better sense to have left it as it was?

How often though have I seen these same trees in all there glory before that moment, all decked out and shining bright, what a way to die, just discarded on the side of a road somewhere now brown and nearly dead if not already. So I wonder as I look at this, sure as it has been mentioned the story goes the ratio of 3 to 1 to harvested and replanted, why shorten a life for the sake of the last days of a holiday. So you can shine more then your neighbors even though the end result is the same no matter how decked out the tree is now.

Really as I analyze this further, I understand better, it makes better sense to me to keep a tree alive, and as mentioned previously use an artificial tree, or preferably, plant your own tree so you can enjoy it year round instead of the 30 days that it may exist before a premature loss. You can have pride in a plant you grew yourself, a plant you could say you grew from the seedling, and still it stands in its glory helping the world all the more as it grows and becomes an integral part of the environment.

In conclusion, though there has been efforts to lessen the loss of the one tree, consider the argument when you go and search for a tree in one of the many lots in town, understand from the time it was cut, it had already started dying, and you throw some of that frost on there that they so kindly offer at the lots, speed of the death all the more. Sure it looks great for now come new years, how will it look then, consider that. Grow your own have pride in it.

And Merry Christmas

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