It WAS a forest several thousand years ago. It’s a desert now. The tree was already over 300 years old. It would have died soon anyway. And Mother Nature had already raped the environment long before the Arabs came by. Climate change happens, all by itself. Trees die, all by themselves. It’s a shame, but not the catastrophe some you froot loops are trying to make it in to. Get a life.

Specifically, the part in the above quote stating, ‘Mother Nature had already raped the environment long before the Arabs came by.’ Difficult for Mother Nature to rape herself, I would have thought. That her somewhat ignorant, though admittedly very young child is playing games with itself to the point of ultimate selfishness and insanity, and proving itself so capable of scapegoating, and xenophobia, it’s a miracle that any of its siblings still care about it enough to want to interact with it …. But here’s a thought: Why did Buddha become enlighted beneath a ‘bodhi’ tree?
Stetch the spelling just a little to see the cosmic joke we have possibly made of ourselves, or someone has, and the tragedy that we still seek happiness at the cost of suffering to others, so many of them trees, while someone else reaps the profits through the words of prophets. Look to the little furred, feathered and chitinous ones in your lives for guidance. They know, they see, they care. And read the story of Balaam and the Donkey in the Old Testament. Oh and don’t forget to keep your balance with a sense of humour and a pinch of salt. :-) Perhaps Dionysos decided to end the incredible loneliness of the acacia tree spirit in the only way at his disposal.

Well, isn’t calling it the Sahara Desert redundant? It means Desert Desert, not unlike the Sierra Mountains (Sierra means “Mountain,” in Spanish), which are therefore called, the Mountain Mountains.

That’s what I was thinking, did he just aim for it

Dude….whoever wrote this comment is an IDIOT! It’s not the fact of whether the true produced fruit or not…RETARD…it’s the fact that this tree had been the only SURVIVOR of an entire forest that slowly died out and the fact that it was still there…the ONLY tree…for hundreds and hundreds of miles is remarkable as it is…but then some damned ASSHOLE, drunk asshole nonetheless, comes along and runs over THE ONLY TREE IN THE F***ING DESERT! You’ve got to be kidding me. I agree, if he had been trying to hit it, he probably would’ve missed it entirely. It’s sad that humans are so irresponsible with nature to kill off something that’s survived for millennia on its own accord…THAT’S THE POINT…NOT whether or not it produced f***ing fruit…you’re the DOUCHE, moron!