@birgittahoffmann This is so pointless. Why would anyone do such a thing?

@birgittahoffmann @Gargron it wasn’t done to harvest the wood, it wasn’t done because it present a danger, it was just done to remove beauty from the world… so sincerely, whomever did this can fuck off and die.

@birgittahoffmann The councillor describes it as vandalism. But you can usually clean up or repair vandalism. I think it's time we formally recognised ecocide as a specific crime.

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Why would anybody do that? They must hate trees, or whatever it is that trees symbolize to them. Or that particular tree. They probably don't even know why, themselves.

@birgittahoffmann People who destroy trees for the fun of it are scum. And I'm only saying that because the other words I wanted to use will get me banned here.

@birgittahoffmann @Gargron The amount of absolutely cool stuff that has been destroyed in recent years by the worst of society is mind blowing. The number of generations these things have survived days this era is one of the worst.

@birgittahoffmann the Japanese version. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160226/p2a/00m/0na/012000c

@birgittahoffmann Have just had a hopeful thought. Sycamores are really good at regrowing when cut down completely. This tree actually has a good chance of surviving where most hardwoods wouldn't. It'll need a tree-guard and stuff if there's deer about, but there's still hope for it to come back from this :)

@birgittahoffmann It's heart breaking. There it stood, proudly embracing the sky, giving life.

@birgittahoffmann I can't even comprehend this sort of evil. This isn't greed, or chaos, or even stupidity... this is just mournful. This is the sort of thing where the individual(s) responsible would be rightly ostracized by literally everybody henceforth. I have no word for how terrible this is. This is beyond reprehensibility, beyond the ultimate limit of shame... beyond any possible excuse. This is inhuman.