Macy’s goes for artificial Great Tree
Macy in Lenox Mall use an artificial tree to celebrate annual holiday festivity this year instead of a real tree due to environment friendly. However, some people who are fans of holiday traditions disagree with this idea. They feel sad because traditions will go away.
I agree with Macy's idea. By technology development, people can use technology bring some life revolution. If follow the traditional way, human will destroy trees every fall for decorating Christmas. Macy adopt this way to protect environment and saving energy, which is a great idea to combine celebrating holiday and protecting environment.
I also can understand the feeling that some people fear tradition will go away, but we have to rethink what the meaning of the holiday is. Family can come together and celebrate together. So, we don't need to focus on the form.
In my country, people play string of small firecrackers to celebrate every Chinese new year; however, the firecrackers bring some environment problems. So recent year, we use environment-friendly firecrackers to celebrate. Environment-friendly firecrackers can mimic the sounds of the real firecrackers, but won't create any piece of trash. At the beginning, some people also disagree this product, but they are used to this product by time going. Therefore, some ways will be changed to celebrate holidays but these ways won't change meaning of the holiday. We don't need to avoid changing.
I totally agree with Macy's idea and I encourage every company and every people to follow this path. Using real trees involves cutting them which lead to high rate of deforestation. Deforestation has harmful effects on the environment such as : soil erosion, bad climitic conditions,...People who stick to tradition and disagree with the idea of artificial trees shoul be concsious of all these negative effects. Using them instead of real trees is a big step in the process of environment protection.
ReplyDelete