It WAS a forest several thousand years ago. It’s a desert now. The tree was already over 300 years old. It would have died soon anyway. And Mother Nature had already raped the environment long before the Arabs came by. Climate change happens, all by itself. Trees die, all by themselves. It’s a shame, but not the catastrophe some you froot loops are trying to make it in to. Get a life.

Specifically, the part in the above quote stating, ‘Mother Nature had already raped the environment long before the Arabs came by.’ Difficult for Mother Nature to rape herself, I would have thought. That her somewhat ignorant, though admittedly very young child is playing games with itself to the point of ultimate selfishness and insanity, and proving itself so capable of scapegoating, and xenophobia, it’s a miracle that any of its siblings still care about it enough to want to interact with it …. But here’s a thought: Why did Buddha become enlighted beneath a ‘bodhi’ tree?
Stetch the spelling just a little to see the cosmic joke we have possibly made of ourselves, or someone has, and the tragedy that we still seek happiness at the cost of suffering to others, so many of them trees, while someone else reaps the profits through the words of prophets. Look to the little furred, feathered and chitinous ones in your lives for guidance. They know, they see, they care. And read the story of Balaam and the Donkey in the Old Testament. Oh and don’t forget to keep your balance with a sense of humour and a pinch of salt. :-) Perhaps Dionysos decided to end the incredible loneliness of the acacia tree spirit in the only way at his disposal.