Life Of a Tree From 550 To 1891

It was cut down to be shown in London and New York museums as well as the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. You've got to remember back in 1891 it took months on a ship to get to the other side of the world, not hours on a jet plane. The world was bigger and places were strange and dark and undiscovered so what if a big tree got cut down? There was probably another one in the next valley (if you Google this there's a picture of the tree getting cut down surrounded by similar sized trees). In the 20th century with the first pictures of Earth from space etc attitudes began to change as people realized resources are not infinite and the world did not go on for ever and ever. Have you ever wondered why the Dodo went extinct when today we have the example of the Dodo to remind us not to make animals extinct? Because at that time they didn't have the example of the Dodo going extinct to serve as a lesson to them.

You know that's a good point. Humans use and use and use and are wasteful and careless right up until we see "oh shit, everything is finite" then the damage has already been done. We need to learn to not be so much that way.