A month after Christmas and still dumping Christmas Pagan trees. Who needs trees? Why not chop them down and send them to landfills?
I don’t go out of my way to take these pictures. I just take them while walking along, doing my regular business. Each picture takes a second or two to take, so maybe a few minutes collectively for all the pictures I’ve taken this season.
That’s how much we fill our world with garbage, or rather turn lovely trees into waste.
Meanwhile, about 98 percent of old-growth forests are gone.
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