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Saplings Removed from Toronto Streets in Time For the G20, and For Good Reason

By David Topping


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  • http://bit.ly/accozzaglia accozzaglia

    As an Evergreen intern alumna, this news makes me generally cry like a sad baby Jesus for two reasons:
    1) That people would think to use saplings as weapons.
    2) That the pre-moved saplings will be stressed by this disruption to their fledgling root system. Paraphrasing Geoff Cape, it’s a miracle an urban tree sapling even survives in those concrete holes which dot the sidewalks.
    I don’t hug trees, but I do like to breathe as much cleaned air as possible whilst around sooty exhaust. I also like seeing green in the city, so sue me for being a full-colour spectrum softy.
    This whole G20 mess seems to know no bounds in its unmitigated ugliness.

  • http://undefined John Duncan

    So if our apparently herculean protestors are able to pull up established saplings and carry them around as weapons, what’s to stop them from pulling up the newly-installed fence-posts (i.e. lightweight aluminum beating sticks) and using them to pole-vault over police officers’ riot shields?
    Next time there’s a summit, will chainlink fences need to be removed too for the safety of world leaders?

  • http://undefined DragonMama

    Well, now we know what the brave leaders of the western world fear most – Nature – and more importantly – Mother Earth.
    Because everyone knows that where there are babies, there is going to be a big bad scary Mama protecting her young, and these lofty politicians are quaking in their fancy dress shoes, knowing all the crimes they have committed against Mother Earth in their national and economic policies.
    Safer not to encourage Mother Earth to come near the G20 by moving her young outside the security perimeter.

  • http://undefined truthsayer

    Haven’t any of you seen lord of the rings….the tree will come alive and fight along side the protestors…tree have long been wronged by man….now the younger saplings are not going to take it like the older more passive trees.

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  • http://www.blog.canoe.ca/canoedossier David Newland

    Hrooooom hrooom!

  • http://bit.ly/accozzaglia accozzaglia

    No, we just need an intimidating Hometree.
    Of course, they’d probably spend another billion to blow it away.