Wake of Destruction
As of this writing, April 2012, there are many millions of dead standing trees in southwestern Michigan, much of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. And this scenario is coming soon to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the east coast. Cities that were not prepared for this onslaught of dead ash trees are now dealing with tree limbs falling and the inability to either raise the dollars or find the skilled man power needed to remove the trees. Insurance companies are being hit with claims coming from trees falling on vehicles, buildings, and even people. A recent report showed that in a number of studied cities, where emerald ash borer has killed all the ash trees, heart attack rates and lung disease deaths are higher than before the ash died. With 10-25% of their urban canopy gone, air pollution is more prevalent.
Read more about this topic: Emerald Ash Borer
Famous quotes containing the words wake of, wake and/or destruction:
“For a novel addressed by a man to men and women of full age; which attempts to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity; to tell, without a mincing of words, of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit; and to point the tragedy of unfulfilled aims, I am not aware that there is anything in the handling to which exception can be taken.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“... the fundamental principles of ecology govern our lives wherever we live, and ... we must wake up to this fact or be lost.”
—Karin Sheldon (b. c. 1945)
“Though castles topple on their warder’s heads,
Though palaces and pyramids do slope
Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Of nature’s germens tumble all together,
Even till destruction sicken—answer me
To what I ask you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)