who's at risk?

I went for a walk tonight, Venus was out in all her shining glory, side by side with sister moon.

I walked past the stumpy remains of a massive tree. The sidewalk beside it was cracked and bulging, pushed up by it's massive root. I assume the tree became a hazard for the house that was built next to it.

The climbing tree in Lakeside was chopped down on Monday, while the kids were at school and the parents at work. A limb came down this winter and they couldn't risk it happening again.

Two brilliant trees chopped down because they put us "at risk".

Sometimes I get the sneaky suspicion that we treat our trees like wood.