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GlennMagusHarvey ,
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This is horrible and obnoxious tree trimming. Bad for the trees, bad for urban tree canopy, bad for urban heat management, bad for carbon sequestration, and done as an insult to labor.

CeruleanRuin , (edited )
@CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one avatar

The city should fine the fuck out of NBCUniversal for the full cost of replacing those trees. Those are not healthy trees.

jonne ,

They did issue a fine of a whopping $250.

LongbottomLeaf ,

Jesus. That doesn’t even cover one tree, not to mention labor. Even if they were fined per tree.

azdood85 ,

Its amazing how fines for businesses are still at 1950s levels but individual (none rich folk) fines have kept up with inflation since the 80s.

Kelly ,

To be honest I thought tree law was going to be more punitive

p1mrx ,

I asked our AI overlords for an appropriate punishment:

The company executives have to spend the weekend acting as city gardeners, complete with typical gardening attire, tending to the local parks and trees - ensuring the community that they’re committed to their “root-level” duties.

azdood85 ,

Every day that we live with AI the more I realize they should be replacing our politicians and executives of major corporations.

I dont care if I have to bow to R2D2 one day, that sounds better than the dystopian hell hole we have now.

jonne ,

It’s almost like corporations and the wealthy have outsized control over politics.

psyqology ,

Fines are literally only for poor people. They’ve done studies on it. Shit is crazy.

jonne ,

Yep, for the wealthy it’s just the cost of doing business.

teamevil ,

Where as I don’t disagree with the timing being retaliatory, my parents have similar trees and my father had me do that just before he passed away. I was convinced I was killing the trees and turns out their canopy is larger than ever now, so it might not be terrible for trees, but still timing is bullshit.

Wolf ,

I’m not an arborist and we don’t have those type of tree where I live, but I have worked in landscaping before. My understanding any substantial trimming like that I’ve done in the past should never be done in the hottest part of the year because the tree will have trouble retaining water.

regular_human ,
@regular_human@lemmy.world avatar

That’s the main thing. Pollard your trees when they’re in winter dormancy, not mid summer while they’re actually using leaves to respirate

Catoblepas ,

This looks more like tipping than pollarding to me. If it’s supposed to be pollarding whoever’s doing it is shit at it. Tipping is harmful to trees, and based on the photos of the tree prior to it being cut it looks like it may have been tipped once in the year already (likely why they weren’t issued a permit by the city and cut it illegally).

regular_human ,
@regular_human@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah, these are obdurate plant butchers in action. This is inexcusable

too_much_too_soon ,

bad for carbon sequestration,

The trim is negligible when you are talking about carbon sequestration in the scheme of things too. I’m not sure how the other points stand up either - but the timing would suggest it is an insult to the labour.

GlennMagusHarvey ,
@GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz avatar

nods Fair enough.

krolden ,
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Theres not even any power lines overthem so theres really no reason to trim them

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