As of this morning, Zagreb is littered with wasted Christmas trees. They rest on their sides along many a building. Waiting for garbage trucks, they line entire streets, squares. Still in perfect shape, the sacrificed trees look pitiful. What a waste! When one imagines the rest of Croatia, Europe, and the Christian world entire, millions upon millions of trees are pillaged for a silly holiday. Each and every year entire forests are cut down in vain. Amazingly, not even the so-called Greens seem to mind the perpetual carnage. And so it continues as though there is no tomorrow. Merry Christmas forever!

Addendum (January 13, 2016)

Sitting in one of my favorite cafés in central Zagreb, I just spied the title of an article about wasted Christmas trees in one of the leading Croatian newspapers read by a fellow at a neighboring table. According to the title, about a hundred-thousand Christmas trees end up in garbage dumps close to the Croatian capital. That amounts to around three-hundred tons of waste. Apparently, the trees are ground to dust, which is then used to feed forests across the country. Given that Zagreb has a quarter of the country’s population, there must be roughly four times as many wasted Christmas trees in Croatia. Considering Europe as a whole, the number rises some five-hundred times. And it rises more than two-thousand times when the entire Christian world is taken into account. In short, millions upon millions of trees are indeed pillaged for a silly holiday each and every year.