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Fun facts: the UK has crazy laws protecting trees and hedgerows. There's a national tree registry for old boys.

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

trees having human rights would shake up this whole system, what with us having entire economic sectors based on slaughtering them wholesale. so either you can just do things as a one-off without generalizing them or you can just shake up the whole system. obviously, this case was the former, which means that other cases can be too. way to end it by being a dick, though.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Sorry, I see how that last sentence can be read as being directed at you. I was thinking more of people in general who say "we should just change the rule"l because it doesn't work in this one instances" without thinking of impacts beyond the immediate problem. Making the environment part of our economic and social systems is a good idea.

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