Oak Timber

Is a tree inhaling carbon dioxide burned from it’s own branches cannibalism?

If one picks up fallen branches from a tree and burns those branches under the same tree, the tree would inhale carbon dioxide from it’s own branches. Is that cannibalism? Would the timber need to be from a different tree of the same family (an oak inhaling smoke from a different oak) to be considered cannibalism?

1. If a branch has fallen, that means it is already dead, so the tree did not technically kill the branch itself.

2. Wouldn’t the person burning the dead branch be the one forcing the tree to cannibalism? :p

3. Trees drink water, they don’t eat air.

Carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide, no matter if it comes from dead branches or a human exhaling. The tree doesn’t care where it comes from. If humans are cannibals, they intentionally eat other humans. There is a difference in the moral, because humans know the difference between right and wrong.

This question made me laugh. Thanks

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