As price of olive oil soars, chainsaw-wielding thieves target Mediterranean’s century-old trees
As price of olive oil soars, chainsaw-wielding thieves target Mediterranean’s century-old trees

As price of olive oil soars, chainsaw-wielding thieves target Mediterranean's century-old trees

SPATA, Greece (AP) — In an olive grove on the outskirts of Athens, grower Konstantinos Markou pushes aside the shoots of new growth to reveal the stump of a tree — a roughly 150-year-old specimen, he said, that was among 15 cut down on his neighbor’s land by thieves eager to turn it into money.
What short sighted idiots. Chopping down a tree to steal the fruit? Our species is its own Great Filter.
The very last line stuck out to me:
Are the thieves to blame or the system in which they live in that's full of social inequality? 🤔 Maybe it's not the person with the chainsaw that's killing their history.
To be fair, olive trees only take 2-3 years to mature, so they're fairly easy to replace.
Just the fact that they'd do that is terrible, though.
No, an olive tree may give you an olive at 3 years. One. A hundred year old olive tree gives thousands and thousands. It's really not replaceable.
Use whatever wood bits that are left to fashion a few stakes and do what stakes do to the people who cut them down.
Sure. That’s poaching, overfishing, clearcutting, and every other natural resource that is exploited into oblivion or causes environmental destruction for a profit.
The way you phrase this like you found me to be arguing in favor of those things confuses me.