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No, Virginia, Your Christmas Tree Is Not a Climate Crime
The holiday tradition may be doing the planet a favor. Regardless, it’s not moving the needle on emissions.
Go ahead and get that tree.
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If there’s one climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on, it’s that trees are good. Even Donald Trump, who has called climate change a Chinese hoax, has proposed planting a trillion trees.
So it might seem that the holiday tradition of chopping down one of these precious planet-savers and dragging it into your living room to festoon with lights and ornaments, only to toss it on the curb a few weeks later, would be bad for the climate. But in fact, you may be doing the planet a favor.