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Tress chopped down in O'Connell Street

category dublin | environment | news report author Friday August 15, 2003 10:59author by Dotty O'Much Brudaigh Report this post to the editors

14 trees chopped down in dead of night

No less than 14 London Plane trees were chopped down at about 4am yesterday in O'Connell Street. Massive hoarding erected by Luas builders meant that passers by (the few that there were at that time) saw none of the destruction. Not a single protestor in sight, BUT one guy did film for a few minutes with a cam corder, perhaps somebody knows who he is? Can images be got for the website?

author by Glen Moranpublication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 15:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

the fucking fucks.

author by iosaf the ipsiphi Mr O' as if & of course my self.publication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 16:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

author by Spirit of the GPOpublication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 17:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

author by So what?!publication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 17:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

author by Rapper Tandypublication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 18:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Sticks did it.

author by Chekovpublication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 18:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

author by Droop the Druidpublication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 19:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

make cruel cutters replant with rowans.

author by Seáinínpublication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 20:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

author by Phuq Heddpublication date Fri Aug 15, 2003 21:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

according to the Indo. No further info available.

author by tony o reilly's good twin - indopublication date Sat Aug 16, 2003 06:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

huh huh?

feckin not a chained hippy in sight.

gotta let go of the glen people,gotta regroup.

author by humanpublication date Fri Aug 22, 2003 22:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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.

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