Should You Buy a Real or Fake Christmas Tree?

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Real sounds like a nice option until you realize that they are often "factory" farmed. In Oregon, famous for its Douglas Firs, they are using a modern day equivalent to Agent Orange to sterilize the forest of anything and everythng, and then planting the desired trees. So you have pesticides that hang around for a long time, normal eco systems destroyed so people can get their desired type of Christmas tree.

I have an artificial tree that I bought more than 20 years ago and I think there is another 20 years left in it.
My concern with this article is that the experts have seemingly endorsed the idea of cutting down millions of live trees every year. The assertion that growing, cutting and mulching a tree has a smaller carbon footprint than purchasing a plastic tree (provided the plastic tree is discarded in less than 20 years) sounds a bit like saying it's better to drive an Escalade than a Hummer.
A live tree sounds like a much better option -- provided you plant the live tree in a place where it can grow to maturity. I live in Colorado and see dead Norfolk Pines discarded every year. They should only be sold here as a live tree option with a big tag saying it needs to be raised in a green house.

Our artificial tree is from the 80's and still going strong. Yes, I will be giving it to my children. There is no reason an artificial tree should end up in a landfill unless the owner chooses that route. I have seen artificial trees offered through Freecycle and they are taken immediately, imperfect ones as well. Again, it is about the wasteful, inefficient use of precious water and soil resources, those things we cannot afford to squander, for a few weeks of enjoyment.

I live in an area where Christmas trees are grown. No tree grower uses irrigation to grow these trees; they are mostly grown on marginal abandoned farm fields, and Mother Nature provides the moisture. The variety grown is a native species (Balsam Fir) and well adapted to the habitat, though if global warming continues that may be different. Their cultivation adds income to an area of high unemployment.
And natural trees have a wonderful fragrance!