Unlike solar or wind, which make up the carbon footprint from their manufacture and installation in five to ten years, trees take decades to grow large enough to absorb all the carbon released upon burning the old trees.
Her group would meet each Sunday at the church of Santa Rita in Miramar, Havana's grandest district, say the rosary, hear mass, and then walk ten blocks in silence along Quinta Avenida on the green verges under the palm trees.