So-called Christmas trees have nothing to do with Jesus being born in Bethlehem and everything to do with pagan holidays, as I write about every year, for example in You Don’t Need a “Christmas” Tree—a pagan tradition. A reminder of the waste you can avoid, and other posts. We changed traditions to this needless one of cutting down trees and dumping them into landfills. We can change from it.

Here is my first sighting of trees cut down for nothing to do with Jesus’s birth. Usually I take pictures of them being put out for the sanitation department to haul to landfills, an example of a socialized cost for private benefit. This one is of them being prepared for sale, wrapped in poisonous plastic. As if killing trees weren’t enough, we fund extracting poisonous oil too.

Is anyone surprised Jeff Bezos’s empire is involved?

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