Environmentalism by Capitalism

When growing up, mine was the chore of sweeping up all the pine needles from my maternal grandparents' Christmas tree. Maybe that is why I somewhat preferred my paternal grandparents' setup, since theirs was an artificial tree, neatly packed into a box at season's end

Considering that it takes around ten years to grow a pine tree to six feet (1.83 meters), it SEEMS wasteful to fell a tree just to decorate a living room for a few weeks, yet counterintuitively, that very demand is what brings so many trees into existence, and keeps them healthier than they would be unaided in the wild. That is the market's invisible hand, elegantly turning destruction into creation.

[Originally posted to the Facebook page on December 1st, 2020.]