Gaia Worship Run Amok

The headline says it all...

Nevada man is guilty of killing trees

Then there is the opening paragraph...

Cloaked by darkness, a saw tucked under his jacket, Douglas Hoffman skulked through suburbia, methodically killing trees.

Or as one of the laywer in the article called it "arborcide"! Arborcide????? Good grief people they're trees not human beings! The vergiabe that is being used by the paper, the lawyers and the neighbors make it sound like this guy is a mass murderer and not a disgruntled long time member of a community who was mad that his view had gone away (that is another rant entirely...). Phrases like "foliage slaughter" and "tree-slasher" are designed to elicit an emotional response....a response that one normally should save for humans who have been attacked.

Now I can certainly see taking this guy to task for criminal trespass, destruction of private property, vandalism and any one of a number of other property charges - but to equate (as this reporter has done) the damage to murder is just another symptom of the devaluation of human life that the environmental movement and the animal rights movement have developed. All life is indeed precious BUT human life is most precious of all solely because we are supposed to have the ability to think, to speak and to reason. Sadly, it seems that reason is lost on the world today.

Updated to include the link which I forgot this morning!