A harbinger of things to come? Greeks chop down their trees

[GliderGuider]

[div class="excerpt" style="border:solid 1px #000000"]GREEKS FELL TREES FOR WARMTH AMID ECONOMIC CHILL

ATHENS (AFP) - Rising oil prices and chilly economic times are prompting increasing numbers of Greeks to chop down trees for winter warmth, a group of forest engineers warned Tuesday.

Nikos Bokaris, a spokesman for the Panhellenic Union of Forest Engineers, said the debt-wracked nation's forest ecosystems were not yet under threat, but urged the government to act quickly to prevent broader damage.

"You have to remember what happened in Albania," Bokaris said, describing how that country's population felled trees en masse after the collapse of communism. "Even the trees lining the roads were chopped down."

[OKIsItJustMe]

1. Yes

I expect we’ll see this more and more as energy prices rise.