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This story follows on from this one. Click here ... meanwhile in Australia, local councils, such as the one
in Sydney, keep planting plane trees. Unfortunately
they’ve failed to notice that plane tree pollen is highly allergenic. This may not matter too much in France where the trees shed
pollen for only a couple of weeks, but is much more severe in Australia where
the climate is hotter, and they shed pollen all year. Asthma and hay fever sufferers are campaigning, not to have
the trees cut down, but just for the council to stop planting new ones.
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to read more. Some readers may feel a pang of sympathy for politicians, criticised in France for cutting plane trees down, and criticised in Sydney for planting too many. Not iGreens.We know what the council should do; the same as politicians
should do everywhere. Just STOP doing anything. STOP.
Stop cutting. Stop planting. The people can decide for themselves how many plane trees
to have. If they want more they can
plant more. If they want less they
can cut them down if they own them, or beg the owners to cut them down if not.
If they really suffer from asthma they can pay to have them cut down. The people will choose the right balance between beauty,
safety and health. They
don’t need politicians to decide for them.
If politicians get involved they will either plant too many
and then tax us to fund cutting down programmes.
Or cut down too many until another politician persuades us to start
paying taxes for replanting. We don’t want it. Go
away you politicians. Stop cutting.
Stop planting. Stop taxing. Stop interfering. JUST STOP. NOW. Jim Thornton Nottingham 21 June 2004 |
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