christ if we are worried about a couple of trees theres no hope for progress

could get some benefits if they tried hard enough whoooooooooo sorry cockman

Heard Mountain Ash hospital has been sold for a old peoples home.... not sure if true but I know there are no plans for it to be knocked down and houses at least.

Some trees are not listed as worthy of preservation, though others, like mature oaks are protected. However, I've noticed that even mature oaks have been felled in certain areas, depending of course on who you are and who you know.

That aside, the human race would not have crawled out of the caves if we'd not cleared land of trees and bushes that were an obstacle to our progress. The sad thing these days though is that trees the world over are being cut down at an alarming rate, all in the name of so-called "progress", when what they really mean is profits for the few.

Rain forests in the Amazon, Indonesia and Africa are particularly targetted by illegal loggers and "progressive" companies who then create huge estates for soya and corn production.

Of course, this old cliche of work for people being more important than trees is always used to destroy what has taken nature thousands of years to create. The answer is managed forests, where if trees are cut down, then they are replaced by others which will benefit future generations.

To blindly cut down trees with no regard whatsoever for the consequences for ourselves and future generations is the height of folly, driven solely by greed, ignorance and short sightedness.

Trees of course are the lungs of the planet, taking up CO2 and giving out oxygen, so if we do cut some down in order to build upon the ground, then they should be replaced in some way. That I've no quarrel with, but I've every objection to the wanton destruction of whole forests for the sake of old fashioned human greed.

If there are some who consider that trees are of no importance, and don't give a damn about the consequences of denuding our landscape of them, then they really are totally ignorant of how nature works.

We need trees, but we have to strike a balance between our needs as human beings and the preservation of nature. We are part of nature too, and we can't get away from that fact. Cut the trees down with no regard, and we harm ourselves, or future generations, because we are handing them a poisoned chalice of having to clean up our mess.