>>1679425Cairns really don't harm the environment.
On top of that, I think they are important. Outside of the benefit stacking them, might give to the stacker.
They break the illusion that you are in "wild country" they force you to reckon with the fact, you are likely in some shitty nature amusement park, and that civilization and its technology extends its tentacles into the farthest corners of the earth, and that without change there will be no escape.