The Christmas tree debate

Well Darryl and I brought home the Christmas tree. Isadora was pissed. Buying a Christmas tree goes against her environmental principles.

We have these discussions.

Her position: We should not be exploiting the earth for our own personal pleasure.

My position: Due to population increase, the only objects that will survive will be those that serve an economic purpose to humans.

Case: If we stopped eating beef and drinking milk, how long before the cow becomes extinct in North America.

India would continue to have them because they are sacred to Hindus.

By purchasing a Christmas tree, you make it economically profitable for someone to maintain a forest. Yes, they will chop part of the forest down each year. But the forest is conserved. If a forest can not be made to be profitable then it will be turned into a parking lot or strip mall with a parking lot.

These are the discussions we have.