But an even greater cause for regret is that "50 years of intensive false cypress logging tore the heart out of Taiwan's life-support system. This devastation, coupled with agriculture moving up into the mountains, can only result in landslides, floods and all kinds of 'natural' disasters.
更大的遺憾是，「五十餘年檜木林的大砍伐，剷除了台灣維生系統的命脈，加上農業上山，導致山崩水壞，生態災難層出不窮……」生態學者迴響耳際的警告，在不時水患、土石橫流的今天，人們也只有無言默認。