Some Dumb Tree

[sidecar bob]

So some fuckin nutter decides to climb a tree on private property to prevent it being cut down.
Here's a clue fucktard, plant a seed & stand back & you have another tree the same, no effort required. For fucks sake, they are a renewable resource & a crop to be harvested. Save the potatoes next time.

[mashman]

You're not worth saving.

[bogan]

Does beg the question though, is anyone planting more kauri trees? Or is looking a few hundred years ahead beyond the ability of the new age twitter-environmentalists?

[rustyrobot]

For fucks sake, they are a renewable resource & a crop to be harvested. Save the potatoes next time.

All other points aside (private land etc etc) - do you really think a 500 year old tree is a 'renewable resource'?

[Swoop]

Good on him.

Stand up for Mother Nature and say "fuck off cunts" to developer scum.

I note the Lunatic Fringe Party have been conspicuous by their absence during this.

[bogan]

All other points aside (private land etc etc) - do you really think a 500 year old tree is a 'renewable resource'?

500 years and he's on his retirement plan, it'll reach similar dimension in about half that time.

If it can't be used, do you really think it is a resource at all?

[rustyrobot]

If it can't be used, do you really think it is a resource at all?

I suppose you could say that in it's other function as a recycler of oxygen it is a resource in its own right.

I googled it anyway and common response is that old-growth tress are by definition not a renewable resource.

I'm with swoop though - one more Kauri tree and one less townhouse. Fuck he'll probably build a house next to it and sell it for 1.5 times more because it has a 500 year old Kauri tree on the property.

[JimO]

its only a fucken tree, whats it ever done for us

[bogan]

I suppose you could say that in it's other function as a recycler of oxygen it is a resource in its own right.

I googled it anyway and common response is that old-growth tress are by definition not a renewable resource.

I'm with swoop though - one more Kauri tree and one less townhouse. Fuck he'll probably build a house next to it and sell it for 1.5 times more because it has a 500 year old Kauri tree on the property.

Don't they slow way down on the recyc as they mature though? more would be recycled if it was cut down and made into a canoe with pine planted there instead

A kauri surrounded by townhouses is up to fuck all, like a lion in a tiny cage, best seen and conserved in more natural surroundings.

[Akzle]

fucken aye!! i say we cut down auckland, and all the townies in their houses, to build forests!

[sidecar bob]

What was this 'tard doing when Maori were killing the last Moa.
I assume he has no possessions made of timber, like a house, or furniture.

[bogan]

What was this 'tard doing when Maori were killing the last Moa.

In fairness, they are probably a bit harder to climb, as were the Haast eagles.

[rustyrobot]

What was this 'tard doing when Maori were killing the last Moa.
I assume he has no possessions made of timber, like a house, or furniture.

Odds are he probably doesn't have a house or furniture made of Kauri though - that's sort of the point.

Do you really want to chop down everything until there's nothing left but ugly townhouses and pine plantations?

[Akzle]

What was this 'tard doing when Maori were killing the last Moa.
I assume he has no possessions made of timber, like a house, or furniture.

safe bet theyre not made of virgin kauri.

[AllanB]

Kauri does make very nice floor boards. The developer marketed it all wrong - he should have publicly stated he was pro-kauri trees and would use natures resources. As in floor boards and a front door on the new house.


Another Council F-up really is the big story.


Turns out the tree is only around 140 years old so suddenly not so exciting!