• @GlennMagusHarvey
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    11 months ago

    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@lemmy.one
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      11 months ago

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

        • @azdood85@lemmy.world
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          3611 months ago

          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.

            • psyqology
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              1211 months ago

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

            • @p1mrx@lemmy.world
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              1111 months ago

              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@lemmy.world
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                711 months ago

                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.

    • @teamevil@lemmy.world
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      2211 months ago

      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@lemm.ee
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        3911 months ago

        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
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          2311 months ago

          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@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            1111 months ago

            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
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              411 months ago

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

      • @too_much_too_soon@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        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.

    • krolden
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      311 months ago

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