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Sacred Trees, Christmas Trees and New Year Trees: A Vision for the Future

Ó Croidheáin, Caoimhghin
http://www.globalresearch.ca/sacred-trees-christmas-trees-and-new-year-trees-a-vision-for-the-future/5499343

Publisher:  Global Research
Date Written:  05/01/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

Trees are a very important part of world culture and have been at the centre of ideological conflict for hundreds of years.In the current debates over climate change, trees have an immensely important role to play on material and symbolical levels both now and in the future.

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In the current debates over climate change, trees have an immensely important role to play on material and symbolical levels both now and in the future. With the rising awareness of climate change, climate resilience i.e. the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change, has become the focus of groups from local community action to global treaties. The planting of trees is an important action that everyone from the local to the global can engage in. Trees act as carbon stores and carbon sinks, and on a cultural level they have been used to represent nature itself the world over.

As symbols, trees have been imbued with different meanings over time and I suggest here that they should continue to hold that central role as a prime symbol of our respect for nature, and not just at Christmas time but the whole year round in the form of a central community tree for adults and children alike. In an uncertain future, the absolute necessity of developing a society that harks back to much earlier forms of engagement with nature in a sustainable way will have to have a focal point. Trees as important symbols of our respect for nature have a long and elemental past.

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