These trees are for asthetics, for shade and for cleansing the air. But trees in the forests are indiscriminately felled for their wood to feed the hunger of consumer societies. 
They perish because we keep buying more than what we really need. We buy because of the successes of advertisements, promotions, sales and marketing pitches that convinced us that material things are essential to our existence. So we own duplicates and multiples of things in different forms, colour and texture made from wood, plastics, metals and sythetic materials. Actually, we can do without most of them. But if we limit our consuming to the basics, the economy will suffer and if we help the economy thrive, the earth will be clogged up with unnecessary discards. So really, we need to find a balance between our needs and the needs of the good earth by not going to extremes when we go shopping and by our acts of kindness to the earth through habits and practices of reducing, reusing and recycling. Make a start by appreciating the beautiful trees in Singapore:
They perish because we keep buying more than what we really need. We buy because of the successes of advertisements, promotions, sales and marketing pitches that convinced us that material things are essential to our existence. So we own duplicates and multiples of things in different forms, colour and texture made from wood, plastics, metals and sythetic materials. Actually, we can do without most of them. But if we limit our consuming to the basics, the economy will suffer and if we help the economy thrive, the earth will be clogged up with unnecessary discards. So really, we need to find a balance between our needs and the needs of the good earth by not going to extremes when we go shopping and by our acts of kindness to the earth through habits and practices of reducing, reusing and recycling. Make a start by appreciating the beautiful trees in Singapore: 
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