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While I’m keen for this story to stay in people’s minds I can’t help but feel this is an entirely empty article. The content and the headline can all be summarised with: “we don’t know”.
The story is “yes we know you want us to just shove another tree in there next week, but we can’t just do that for the following reasons.
It’s sad but just leave it be. What’s lost is lost and cannot be easily replaced or replicated. In another millennium or two there’ll be something else there and those of us around today won’t really have any control over that.
It won’t take a millennium to grow a new tree or trees, if one wants. Even the tree in question had only been there for a couple hundred years.