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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1027559&issue_id=9632
the fucking fucks.
read it all....
Tuesday Nov 14th. 2002.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=17570
in comment to above article Daithi made a link list to the O'connell St. tree stories:
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=17359 Sat 9th Nov. 2002
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=17115 Thu 7th Nov. 2002
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=16991 Wed 6th Nov. 2002
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=16961 Wed 6th Nov. 2002(main article)
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=16675 Sun 3rd Nov. 2002
A Labour Party deputy passed an emergency motion to save the trees Nov 8 2002:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?id=17198
In addition three articles from the Independent group of newspapers.
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=866993&issue_id=8316
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=36&si=867048&issue_id=8316
and yesterday's linked above.
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In the last week Europe has lost a considerable amount of it's trees to forest fires most notably in Portugal which has lost more than 5% of it's wooded areas in less than ten days. An acre area equivalent to the size of Luxembourg. Which is as you know larger than Munster and Leinster together.
This is thought to be the result of global warming, or of climate change, the mediterranean zone will need twenty years to recuperate wooded cover in those most effected areas (in order of hectars lost) Portugal, Spain, [Catalonia], [Sardinia], Italy.
The present approach to climate change and the inievetably associated change in terrain, as forest turns to scrub, scrub turns to desert, is undoubtedly the result of _attitude_.
An attitude that places "modernity" and "progress" "urban regeneration" and "token monuments of the new world order" ahead of the most simple respect for our environment.
No-one may suggest that the trees of O'Connell street are as vital to Europe's future as the forests of the south or those of the north in Scandinavia which are equally plagued by acid rain. But behind the glib ignorance of our past and environment lurk the same sentiments that thrashed Kyoto and have changed our climate.
They who would make such decisions and legislate to make them sell their countries and cities to tourists as being places of natural beauty. It may take less than a generation of unchecked "odd weather" and "unusual heat waves" before the forest areas of Europe are burnt. The amount of oxygen shall be lost might be negligible on a global scale but climate change makes through it's chaotic wonder new worlds from negligible change.
We really do need to change our attitude to trees.
Because it is almost too late.
It might be an idea to keep a close eye to the trees of Galway which also figured in our thoughts here on IMC lreland this last year.
Those trees got the sharp end of it alright.
And we can all thank that useless ugly prick that costs us so much money...
decide for yourself whether that refers to the Spike or Bertie.
So what?! at the end of the day they were only a few trees. What about the hundreds of workers that are being laid off on a daily basis? what about the crisis in the health system?
I just think some people that visit this site need a bit of perspective.
The Sticks did it.
You might care to notice that there are loads of articles on the site about neo-liberalism, the bin charges, the bus workers struggle....
Why complain about an article featuring an issue that you don't think is important? There are plenty more that are right up your alley. If everybody had the same priorities it'd be a damned boring world.
In any case the articles that attract the most interest (by number of comments) on this site are about the SP. The tree articles get a tiny number in comparison.
make cruel cutters replant with rowans.
There should be a very good reason to chop them down, anybody know exactly why they were removed?
The council ought to advertise in advance if they're planting and removing trees so that people can lodge objections, just like they do with buildings.
according to the Indo. No further info available.
huh huh?
feckin not a chained hippy in sight.
gotta let go of the glen people,gotta regroup.
who cares about workers being "laid off" (i prefer "liberated") when israelis and palestinians are bombing civilians, the rainforests are being cut down, the ice caps are melting, thousands of species are going extinct, thousands of people die every day from lack of clean drinking water///
bleeding workerism, as if being exploited was a human being's goal in life.