There is a constant battle where retirees who have moved out here want to cut down all the trees because they are “a nuisance.”
I love the trees in front yards and in some other places, but in back yards where they're in the utility easement and never should've been allowed there in the first place, they _are_ a nuisance. It's important to differentiate the two; if we want the benefits of electricity we have to compromise a little on every-tree-everywhere-no-matter-the-cost.
Unfortunately some dumb bug ate all the old trees so many of the roads are nude now, but they’re slowing building them back up with a tree nursery.
But it takes 20+ years.
As someone from a country where electricity comes from the ground, not the sky: unless you live in a place that also doesn't have sewers or municipal water, no we do not.
Someone at some point made the (at the time perhaps even sensible, but more likely not) choice to run electricity along poles, fully exposed to the environment, instead of using utility pipes buried several feet deep. And you now live with the consequences of that decision.
Plant trees there, and move your utilities underground, geography and climate permitting.
And then keep that electricity above ground for all the parts where people don't (or sparsely) live. They're not the areas that are part of this problem.