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>> No. 2104 Anonymous
14th October 2012
Sunday 1:09 pm
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For fucks sake. Well lads, looks like another species of tree is going to hit the dust shortly. Oak trees aren't too far behind either. There's a fungus that's pretty much wiping out Ash trees worldwide. It seems like this is just another taste of things to come.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/07/disease-killing-denmarks-ash-trees

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ash-trees-under-threat-as-lethal-bug-found-here-3258041.html

http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/conservation-news/ash-tree-apocalypse.19121646

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/oct/12/wildlife-ash-tree-die-back

>Other European nations are now begging Britain to ban imports of ash saplings, so that the tree retains an uninfected stronghold. As ever, when faced with a call to impose even the slightest restrictions on business (think of its failure to ban the class of pesticides that are killing bees), the government has dithered and made excuses, and the fungus is now spreading across the country.
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>> No. 2105 Anonymous
14th October 2012
Sunday 1:16 pm
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>>2104
Isn't this just the way of the world? It seems to me we ought to worry about the life we're endangering rather than combating nature itself.
>> No. 2106 Anonymous
14th October 2012
Sunday 2:43 pm
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>>2105 We are causing this by moving populations of organisms around the globe quickly. This kind of thing has probably happened lots of times before but has been limited to local populations of Ash which have later recovered as Ash from healthy populations move back in when the outbreak burns out naturally. In this modern world, populations are no longer isolated as we have a habit of transporting individuals all over the place.

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