Well, having read a few responses and thought about this a bit I have to hone and polish my personal definition of a tree hugger.
In the link below to a post on the failed New Farm jacarandas is a video from the news broadcast. They interviewed a few people walking around and right at the end of the video watch what a woman says.
New Farm Jacarandas
This is what is said on that video.
Quote:
Reporter: "You'll like to see them stay?"
Lady: Yes please, that'll be great"
Reporter: "Despite the possible danger"
Lady: "Absolutely, yep aren't they beautiful trees"
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So knowing the essence of my thoughts on what a tree hugger is I would throw her into that bucket. Yep, she's a tree hugger. Not because she protests or hugs trees physically but because her rational judgement is impaired and she is willing to put human life below that of a tree.
So I wonder if she'd attend the funeral service of some-one who is killed or pay them the compensation? It's easy to be green but like all things there's checks and balances. Now perhaps another tree fell yesterday, not sure, nothing on the news etc but I'll head down there.
Issue is the trees were checked, over and over with every possible instrument etc, they were also heavily pruned, I mean ugly, big 14" dia limbs taken off etc yet they keep falling. So understanding from an arborists point of view the targets and situation I'd say some-one like her is a tree hugger.
I was reading in the NSW court case files of Judge Judy and other files on SLD that basically if a tree has never done it before it is an unlikely candidate to do it. So to remove say a gum tree from your property coz "they drop limbs ya know" is not valid unless it has previously. And in the NSW cases that is checked, evidence of SLD, if didn't happen before that reason is tossed out.
However, here's comes the parody, with that train of thought it means ...
1/ Every tree at some stage was considered "immune" to SLD as they all had to wait for their first limb drop.
2/ A failure must occur first, in other words we'll do something about it after the event, meanwhile the customer will laugh saying "I told you so" if he lives and doesn't sustain damage otherwise he'll be yelling it like this ... "I'M NOT EVEN AN ARBORIST AND I TOLD YOU IT WOULD HAPPEN, NOW LOOK WHAT YOU DONE, YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT!" and so goes cases like Shoalhaven council getting sued and losing.