Aye, which is why I said trees are better than no trees. I’m not advocating for ripping them out or anything ridiculous like that.
Just that when people see pictures like this, because there’s trees, they think it’s nature. It’s good. And yes it’s better than nothing, and it supports some life, but it could be so much better.
I don’t buy the argument that just because a city is old it should be absolved of its duty to nature. Poplar trees don’t get particularly old as trees go, all of these will have been planted sometime in the last 100 years. Future plantings should be sporadic, to mimic nature, but due to tradition and the normalisation of perfect rows most around the world still aren’t. People like their perfect neat rows, nature be damned.
Sure, let’s not keep this culturally protected 200m long stretch of trees. This image massively compresses the distance between these trees, surrounding this area are large parklands with much more nature-like planting, so no thank you this one place can stay.
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Aye, which is why I said trees are better than no trees. I’m not advocating for ripping them out or anything ridiculous like that.
Just that when people see pictures like this, because there’s trees, they think it’s nature. It’s good. And yes it’s better than nothing, and it supports some life, but it could be so much better.
I don’t buy the argument that just because a city is old it should be absolved of its duty to nature. Poplar trees don’t get particularly old as trees go, all of these will have been planted sometime in the last 100 years. Future plantings should be sporadic, to mimic nature, but due to tradition and the normalisation of perfect rows most around the world still aren’t. People like their perfect neat rows, nature be damned.
Sure, let’s not keep this culturally protected 200m long stretch of trees. This image massively compresses the distance between these trees, surrounding this area are large parklands with much more nature-like planting, so no thank you this one place can stay.