Earth Hour

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Type 97 Chi-ha

I thought you might want to note that though "tree huggers" is now a derisive term, the original practicioners weren't hippies or even environmentalists in the true sense of the word. They were ordinary citizens in India who lived near a forest where a company, without local permission, was going to cut down all the trees. The only immediate method for the locals to stop the lumberjacks as they were about to do their work was to wrap themselves around the trees, hugging them, so the lumberjacks couldn't cut them down. I don't know what eventually happened, but the tree huggers did at least delay the trees from being cut down.

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