This Christmas tree was not cut down in the forest. It must be one of the largest fake Christmas trees in Germany. According to the local paper, it has met with mixed reactions (anything artificial or gaudy tends to be despised).
This is more worrying:
The Fürther Nachrichten reported on Saturday that this is just an SPD pre-election initiative.
I sure hope that’s made out of recycled materials.
About the only positive thing that can be said about it in that respect is that it needs only 4000 watts to light it, as opposed to 100,000 watts if it weren’t reflective (and zero watts if it wasn’t there at all).