The first to fall were the birches, just as beguiling when horizontal.  The world was unconcerned.  The willows fell next, weeping.  When we lost the baobabs and ginkgoes, arborists sounded the alarm, and humanity shrugged.  Rubber trees caught everyone’s attention, mostly because of how commerce was impacted.  In short order, mangroves and maples, alders and ashes, figs and firs all fell, too.  Our shared sorrow and shame did not bring them back.