• Flambo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A Greek proverb says a society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never know. What’s the exact opposite of that?

    Well what’s happening right now is old men are actively uprooting anything that won’t grow to shade tree size in their lifetimes. It’s as if their aim is to one day build their own coffin out of the absolute last tree on Earth.