Deforestation

A reader sent this in with the text; “This one piece 204 foot mast all came from a single fir tree. And, these days we scramble to find a 40 foot piece that’s half worth having.”

But I rather wonder what his point is.

I asked a friend, who said, “Well, it means that we just don’t grow trees like that any more,” like we don’t parent children like we did when we spanked them when they were disobedient, or we don’t make toasters designed to last a lifetime.

I think the more logical explanation is that we’ve chopped down the huge trees, and replacing them isn’t a profitable enterprise, so who cares?