May 23, 2012

The future of tree diseases

Miniature from Beatus "Commentarius in Apocalypsin" - A.D. 975

What has caused the epidemics that are currently decimating our trees? The factors involved are intimately linked to economic development – and the only hope for our trees lies in de-industrialisation. Published in The Ecologist Vol. 9, Nos. 4–5, August 1979. Trees are threatened with extinction. Those that survive the woodman’s axe and the developer’s [...]