h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK! Who in their right mind (anywhere in the world ?) would want to insure a stump of a tree ?

It's like the guy selling seagulls
which ones mine ?
That one flying overhead to the right!

I suppose you pay them so that the stump doesn't land on your house.

If you don't have a house they provide rentals in order to verifiably not have the stumps land on it.

what a stupid protection racketAl Capone would turn in his grave

I'd want the insurance. There's been a lot of tree-cutting and stump removal in my neighbourhood lately. We kept an eye on them...

oh I just gotta say it!

that's treemendus! forget internet "hacking"take a tree down and stuff global warming

Cut the tree down, store the wood and use the space to grow another tree to fight global warming...

plant plastic trees they last a lot longer

That is a very green way to stop oil derivatives from being burnt into CO2. (provided the plastic trees are green).

Did you know that green paints are amongst the most environmentally unfriendly. Maybe it should have been Brownpeace instead of Greenpeace.

As regards the stumps: this area has been settled for about 200 years. In that time, many trees have grown up. Some have died of old age. This causes problems. You have to remove them so they don't fall on your house or the neighbour's dog. Nobody is engaging in any environmentally-unfriendly land clearances. They live in this environment, too. But sometimes, they need to move the stumps so that they can plant over them.

We always plant new trees. And if we don't, the squirrels do. I had half a dozen volunteer maple trees in my flower bed - we gave them to Farmer Hoggett. He's still supposed to come and get the baby plum trees out back. That plum tree is ageing out and throwing up offspring.

And then there are the walnuts. Don't talk to us about the walnuts. We yell at the squirrels to take them to someone else's yard and bury them.

Oh, and yes, we do live only a few miles from a state forest. A87856410

Plastic trees, my aunt Fanny....

If we had plastic leadersof all the worlds countries! That would be a boost to world peace and climate change The "real" ones are a waste of breathable air (power mad, as throughout history)