This week a town in Quebec became the first place to codify the rights of trees.

It’s long overdue. 

We must reimagine our relationship with trees and plant and care for them in the urban environments that we mostly inhabit, which have historically been so wierdly hostile to trees from the urban planning stages through the aggressive policing of community initiatives to increase the urban canopy.

This is not my writing, but is a fantastic piece on trees as living infrastructure and the class politics of urban heat:

https://open.substack.com/pub/ecosocialismandnature/p/every-tree-is-living-infrastructure?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=367xth