"Poor Little Trees" is the work of german artist Steven Burke he used acrylic paint on "on dead wood from the South West of France". take me there...
His work reminds me of a letter I sent to my office on earth day this year, asking them to recycle paper... I wished i had one of these sad trees at the time to illustrate my point...Daily there are piles and piles of unclaimed copies, reports, charts, lengthy emails and faxes left behind...I asked if they knew that nearly half of the trees cut in North America alone go to papermaking?...Paper people argue lower percentages, claiming that most of the trees are cut for lumber to make buildings, furniture and other non-paper products. However, the lumber and paper industries work closely together. A significant part of the tree cannot be used for lumber and is chipped, instead, for papermaking. While some of this collaboration between the lumber and paper industries represents a good way to use what otherwise would be "waste" from resource extraction (branches, stumps, "forest residue," sawdust), trees are also being cut for papermaking when they're too small for lumber causing great damage to ecosystems and a great deal of deforestation.
The paper people (industry) calls trees "a renewable resource," giving people (consumers) the impression that there is no problem with cutting trees since they can be replanted (in contrasts to oil, ores and other minerals) but unlike a true forest, replanted trees are not self-sustaining.
A large percentage of the trees planted do not survive to maturity, nor are they intended to, as the trees are thinned with growth.
Trees are not a "crop". They are not planted on agricultural farmland. Before a tree farm is planted, forests have to fall. :(
