Rohini Nilekani writes: Requiem for a dying tree
No living being likes to be uprooted. Not people, not trees
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No living being likes to be uprooted. Not people, not trees
America is a dying tree. A nation in decline that is drowning in violence, hate, poverty, selfishness, and indifference. We stand in line to watch movie stars batter each other in court over who is the most abusive, become ingulfed in the mess and ignorance of others “realities,” care more about likes and subscribers from nameless, faceless “friends” then we care about our neighbors.
Teenagers, an icy lake and the saving power of one rickety tree. here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: all they had was a dying tree. for more than four hours, that's what the two boys clung to, stranded in the middle of an icy lake. . >> it was pretty scary. >> yeah, it was pretty scary. >> you could feel it sinking in and cracking. >> reporter: the two told us what happened when they went out walking on that lake in the arizona mountains, and the ice cracked. >> if the tree wasn't there, we probably would have fallen in. >> reporter: each lost a shoe, so they covered their bare feet with t...