News about this strange magical tree traveled over Facebook
recently, eliciting many oohs and aahs. But, the image stuck with me and made
me wonder what is the purpose of the tree’s magic. I’d like your help to
decide.
This seems like a wonderful use of magic, enabling growth of
a tree from the radiant heat or some other mystical energy given off from
man-made electricity. If so, then there is hope once we deplete more of our
resources to continue to renew Earth's atmospheric gases. This would be a great new
way to extend our time as a species on this planet. OR, is this showing the
takeover of plant life through use of some superior botanical magic, forcing
humans out?
Another question—what is the scale? Is the tree normal size
or the light bulb? If the bulb is to scale, then magical trees are very tiny.
Does their magical power make smaller size more viable for a tree, perhaps
allowing it to be less dependent upon photosynthesis? If so, magical trees are
not much for providing shade. If this magical tree is to normal scale, then it
requires a heck of light bulb or electrical source. With our energy demands
already so great, providing more to power magical trees may be a hard sell to politicians
who are usually not very magically minded.
What do you make of
this amazing tree? Is this a helpful or dangerous use of magic?
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