Shouldn't we all be hugging trees?  Maybe we should be Earth Stewards or World Protectors?  We're all in this together so what's left for our kids?

   I am delighted to admit I have actually hugged trees and futhermore taught children to do so.

patrick

To know they were being dissed with your list would require thought.  We need to keep it simple to reach the majority. - species slayers, Earth wreckers, habitat haters, lung cloggers, water destroyers, beach spoilers, groundwater leaches, and so on.  Pocket liners, public violators, trust violators, and I need some synonyms for mass rapists...Planet rapists.  

If it's planet sized, its beyond their comprehension or concern. If the timeline is beyond the next five years, its also beyond them...

New studies show the trees can alleviate some of the warming, so plant and hug your tress today!!

Think of it this way:
You've got 10 seconds in an elevator to insult some earth destroying moron.

Two rules:
Keep It Simple Stupid!
and
Say it with a smile on your face

Child hating SUV suckers
Selfish me-firster
Property wrongster
Greedy future masher
Poison spewing fools
Nature killers
Future destroyers
Bed pissing corporations

-Hummer-dumbers

-Tail pipe smokers

-Corporate morass dumb*ss

-New-wave MCPs: Mean Capitalist Pigs

They call us Crunchy and Granola...maybe we call them Soggy Sugar Cereal?

Which kind of tree out West smells like a vanilla milkshake when you hug it?

Dad taught me years ago, but I've been in this tree-less city for too long now to remember...

is a higher elevation sibling of Ponderosa pine in California and parts of Nevada. They do have subtle differences but the easiest way to tell is to sniff the bark. A few say it smells like butterscotch but it clearly smells like vanilla to most people.

On the subject of "treehuggers", I hug dozens of trees each week, measuring them with a tape. Sometimes it's to see if they're big enough to cut (9" dbh) or to see if they're too big to cut (over 30" dbh). Generally, we're cutting about 50% in small trees (9-14" dbh), cutting 40% in slightly bigger trees (14-20" dbh) and the rest in the "money trees" (20-30" dbh). The larger than 30" dbh trees all stay put, regardless of their vigor, diseases and health.

I like the bumper sticker I saw at an environmentally oriented web site "I not only hug trees, I kiss them to." Then I remember the scene in The Piano Lesson, where all the kids are humping trees.

This all reminds me of the term politically correct. This was a term the right stole right out from under the left's nose. My earliest memory of the term politically correct, was that is was used by the left to laugh at the left. We would always say things like "We went to see Reds the other night. Everyone was there. It was so PC."

I suggest make the term a term of respect and honor. If you do not mind it and embrace it you will ruin the fun of those who use it as a term of denigration. People will only laugh at you if you let them.  

Randy