Yesterday
my husband has noticed something really sad on the way home. Before dinner I
went out to buy some bread and I saw it too.
A bunch of pine trees in net.
They were supposed to be christmas trees in happy, cozy homes during the
holidays. Instead of that, they are lying on the street next to a garbage,
waiting to get transported to a landfill.
After
they got cut out from the ground they had to wait for about three weeks to get
sold. As you can see they were not lucky enough to go home with families.
Christmas is over and people don’t need them any longer. Those trees had to die
for nothing. I can’t imagine how many trees get wasted every year like this.
Why can’t people order a tree they will use it for sure. My husband told me
this thing exists and people do that but not enough people.
You
might think it’s lame but we have a little plastic christmas tree. It’s not
taller than our two years old daughter but you should have seen her face at
christmas eve when she saw it. She was so happy and grateful. She even called
the angels with her toy phone to thank them for bringing that beautiful tree
and the presents. It was very touching.
Another
option is to buy a living tree. The sad thing is that those who cut the tree don’t
give a damn about the roots of the tree, and they cut them brutally, then stuff
them into a pot, then sell it. You wonder why did your „living” christmas tree
die five days after the holidays.
I
wish we could live in a house with garden, so we could have a real tree outside.
Anyway, we should stop wasting trees like that. It happens because of money. The
tree sellers want to make big profit (just like James Onedin. No offense, it’s
a great show :) so they buy as many as they can. I’m sure they don’t feel bad after
throwing those poor trees away.
See?
Another group of „healthy apple throwers” Good job. Again. People wonder why is
our globe in such a bad shape. That’s why. I’m not saying that I’m so special,
or my husband (of course he is the most special, most wonderful person to me)
or that we raise special children (although our two years old is as clever as a
four year old) but I think our world is full of average people with average and
simple thinking. Simple people raise (usually)
simple children. „Healthy apple thrower” and „needlessly tree cutter” people
make a huge part of our society. Sorry if I sound judgemental.
I
think knowledge is what makes you a better person. (There are exceptions.) The
more you know about things, the more of a person you are. If you don’t know about
the dying rainforests and the suffering animals, you keep buying products
containing palm oil. After you have that knowledge, you (hopefully) start
buying palm oil free stuff. If you know that trees die for nothing, you start
looking for a solution.
Money
is the biggest problem, wanting it, making it. More and more. As long as our
world is money-based that strongly, people will want to make huge profits, they
will want to buy lots of things, use big cars, fuel ect.
Overfishing will
continue till there is fish in the ocean. Because they/we can sell it to others
for money. (In 2013 a
222 kilogram
bluefin tuna was sold in Tokyo for 1.8 million dollars!) Did you know that
bluefin tuna population is only 10% now worldwide? People have taken out 90% of
them from the ocean so far. Tuna fish will disappear if we are not careful. Why
is it so bad? Because tuna is one of the most important predators in the ocean.
They eat smaller fish who eat plankton. If tuna fish die out there will be no
predator to eat the smaller fish and there will be overpopulation. They will
eat all the plankton they find then die out because of starvation. Do you know
what will stay in the ocean? Jellyfish. Can you eat it? Bon appétit! But this
is another story to tell, so I’m saying bye now. Have a great new year! :) And don’t eat that crappy palm oil. Thanks.
