Androcles wrote:

The tree-huggers should be shipped off to Siberia or Northern Canada
and denied access to fossil fuels or any energy source that is dependent
on them. They can then hug all the trees they want, those that survive
a winter should be given the opportunity to return if they undertake to
keep their stupid mouths shut, those that don't are then left alone.

I've been a truck driver and a logger... I've personally cut down
hundreds, if not thousands of hectares of forest with a chainsaw, I've
personally skidded them out to the landing, I've personally hauled them
by truck to the sawmill.

Having had to wrap my arms around the butts of trees to get the chokers
on them... I've hugged A LOT of trees.

With my arms the size of tree trunks, you just better hope I never
decide to hug you.