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Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn’t going to do that.
Those are our national Forests, they don’t belong to fascist billionaires like Trump and Musk! Resist, fight back, and let’s tell these Nazis they can’t strip our environment, government, healthcare and democracy to give tax breaks to rich people…
didn’t he say it would be like 0.5% of all federal land, or something.
One difference between the fascists and the rest of us is that for us, words have meaning, while for the fascists, they’re only a tool for manipulation when spoken to somebody they see as inferior.
A hundred years from now the planet will be in a pretty good shape, forests have been regrown and the seas will have been cleaned up and repopulated with fish, except for the US which is a giant hole. Not from bombs exploding, but from strip-mining the whole place for resources.
The absolute level of stupidity of this is ridiculous. Lumber mills are not designed for old growth trees in the modern era, so all these trees will not even become lumber. Logging has become very sustainable in recent decades. They farm trees and mill them when they reach the size that the machinery at the mills is optimized for. If we just cut down all the forests, the mills can’t even process the logs even though it’s better lumber. In reality, they’d just send the old growth logs to be ground for pulp which is a total waste. This video does a good job explaining it.
I think Trump is clearing land for the techno-fiefs that Project 2025 wants to create among the head fascists. He hands out land parcels, gets a reacharound from Thiel and company.
Heil Praxis
Ugh I hate that they used that word
The USA will resemble Russia, China and Mordor.
Where’s an entmoot when you need one?
In the past decade, China has regrown more than 70 million hectares of forest cover. The country has benefited greatly from solutions in biodiversity conservation, sustainable usage and climate governance, resulting in wetland and forest restoration that also combats desertification. (link to a WEF article on China’s reforestation efforts)
… it has made “remarkable strides” in tackling the issue, said Xinhua, beginning in 1978 with the launch of the “Great Green Wall of China”. Expected to continue until 2050, the “biggest tree-planting project in human history” will ultimately have created “88 million acres of forests in a wall stretching about 3,000 miles and as wide as 900 miles in some places”, (article from The Week regarding anti-desertification efforts)
In November 2024, China’s government reported that after 46 years of work it had finished the 3,000-kilometer green belt around the Taklamakan Desert. The country’s forest coverage grew from 10% of the overall territory in 1949 to 25% in 2024 (this one’s a link to the Wikipedia page for the Great Green Wall initiative, if you’re interested)
That is just… Insane. Incredibly sad.
Fuck. This kind of shit is why I feel the need for revenge on these people. They’re slashing forests and impoverishing the population. It’s not enough for them to lose an election. they need to pay
I want my pound of fucking flesh.
Literally Saruman.
Revolt happened.
Saruman died on a spike.Mirror mirror on the wall, who is Nostradamus about Trumps fall?
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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.Trump has two legs. Just sayin
So just cut one off. Gotcha
The Black Knight always triumphs!
It’s just a flesh wound!
The trees can’t be harmed if the lorax is armed. You touch his trees, he aims for your knees.
Go go go, Tonya Harding!
These are our forests. They belong to the US people. They’re being stolen from us. For private profit of a few.
I mean, as the other guy pointed out, you as a people stole the fucking lot and literally massacred thousands upon thousands of people to do it.
Shoe’s on the other foot now, eh?
Ah yes, because native Americans celebrate the raping of their lands as long as the people who took it from them hundreds of years ago descendants (unlikely, given how many generations are immigrants) are also having their lands raped too.
Get the fuck out here with this brain-rot level argument. 🤦
Go stir the pot somewhere else.
You’re right in that it was a comment designed to “stir the pot”, if by that you mean, “make someone stop for a moment and consider their position in history”.
I agree that any right thinking person, of Native American origin or otherwise should be aghast at the current US administrations utter destruction of everything, from old growth forest to human structures of civilisation.
Reading it back, my comment sounds flippant and ignorant. That’s on me for commenting pre-coffee and smoke. 💛
Reading it back, my comment sounds flippant and ignorant.
I don’t think you all on .ee can help that, you seem to be solely a propaganda instance.
Have you even looked at my comment history to decide what kind of person I am, or did you decide that purely from where I registered my account over a year ago?
Have I seen you around yes, I believe we’ve even interacted before. That said no in don’t profile creep which is why I made a general statement I think I’m probably correct on.
Funny you say that from the padded room instance. 🤣
that shit didn’t stop happening ‘hundreds of years ago’ natives are getting fucked over by America regarding land rights as we speak
fuck off yourself
obviously you wouldn’t know this though because it only matters when it happens to you, typical privileged white america
Both times it was the government to the greatest extent.
“The government” offered money for the task, and thousands took that money and got on with the job.
“The Government” is people. Usually the worst, most manipulative self-serving people. It does what other people let it get away with.
And Britain stole the world, what point does any of this make? What do you want done about it?
They did. And created and taught others some of the most reprehensible methods of population control and genocide the world has ever seen.
Acknowledging it rather than denying it. Learning from the darkest parts of our history, to never have it be repeated is what I want done.
Ignorance of our history is why it keeps repeating itself. Gestures widely
yea if 60% ish of America could self reflect we’d not be in the state we are today
You stole that whole country
Whataboutism.
2 wrongs don’t make a right.
The point is that you admit your wrongs.
As they clearly can’t and get very defensive, as hypocrites do.
Moot, pointless, argument.
This argument accomplishes what exactly? Aside from trying to just stir the pot or create culture war drama?
It’s okay for public lands to be raped and razed now? Because (like damn near all the land in the world, everywhere) was taken during war/conflict?
the original comment was about ‘we’re being stolen from’ seems pretty relevant but I get how white America doesn’t want to think about it
that’s just your little opinion
A little opinion is appropriate in response to a small minded comment.
No one asked for yours anyway.
And are you mislabeling it as ‘small minded’ bcs it’s directly confronting your hypocrisy?
Looks like you’ve got a case of the projections.No one asked for yours anyway.
And who asked for yours? Are you just special?
And are you mislabeling it as ‘small minded’ bcs it’s directly confronting your hypocrisy?
LOL, I’m not an American.
Looks like you’ve got a case of the projections.
ROFLMAO I can’t even, ZERO self awareness with this bloke.
imagine feeling the need to get involved when you have no skin in the game
how about you watch your people get fucked a few generations and while it’s going on this moment people are complaining about your response over their hypocrisy
Oh you’re from the country that’s clearly in the same boat.
Or the bigger boat since you plundered a lot more.
Ah, a troll.
“They’re gonna chop down national forests”
“bUt WhAT aBoUt ThE iNdIaNs???”
bruh
“bUt WhAT aBoUt ThE iNdIaNs???”
bruh
The opinion of people who write like this can’t be take seriously
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more like ‘now you care? lol’
Americans get real mad when confronted with their hypocrisy.
yep
What country are you from, and how many people did it ship over to north america to colonize it?
lol this thread full of privileged white Americans is whining about takes and then you drop this and it’s upvoted
double down on the hypocrisy guys
We didn’t export criminals.
And besides the point, it’s about admitting it happened.
Which is very difficult for Americans looking at the angry reactions.
Sorry I didn’t care 400 years ago. I’ll try harder.
How many cared when it was decided there would be an oil pipeline through the pittance they were relegated to? More land stolen, and everything around it polluted in time to add insult to injury.
Did you care then, just a few years ago?
I mean, people didn’t do nothing.
Not near enough to actually change a damn thing though, was it?
I mean shit, the company responsible is now trying to take down Greenpeace -the entire entity- in court over the whole affair, it is that confident in how fucked the US judicial system is.
They got to choose where to hold a trial with global ramifications, and tainted the entire possible jury pool by restricting it to some poxy little oil town that would cease to exist if not for the oil industry.
How many of you turned out to protest that?
that’s better than nothing but that’s self interest and farmers were right to be worried
none of that changes anything on a national level nor changed the actual outcome so the criticism is still valid
it’s happening to native lands in the US while we speak, the fact you are not even aware earns the ‘lol’
It’s an American tradition.
We get 30% of our lumber from Canada. This is the inevitable consequence of shutting our borders to trade via tariffs - if these policies stick around for four years, sure, we may bring some manufacturing home at great immediate cost, but we’ll also be bringing home the environmental burdens of manufacturing (the negative externalities) which we’ve been pushing onto other countries and ignoring for decades. In the meantime, other countries have started to learn how to handle those externalities, like China’s big push for solar power. In America, we’ve got an idiot who is rolling back worker safety, health and environmental protections, the list goes on. So even if these tariffs worked, we’re going to be living in a less healthy place, all in the name of jobs…
This has nothing to do with the tariffs; even if those weren’t happening Trump would be selling the trees off to his cronies anyway. It’s a blatantly corrupt kleptocracy.
It has everything to do with lumber tariffs, it’s just the other end of the equation. The forests are the supply, and the tariffs will create the demand.
They are privatizing every single thing.
Nothing to do with Tariffs. They just make the business more juicy for his cronies.
March '23 Trump gave a soundbite for his billionaire bosses about building “Freedom Cities.” Clear-cutting national forests, then signing an order that makes the area exempt from regulation? Sounds about right.
If they’re coming for all federally governed land, indigenous reservations will be on the menu as well (always are).
Yeah, keep getting excited about the crowds at these protests. They. Do. Not. Care if people protest. Case in point, this.
That’s bullshit. Protests need to start somewhere and gain momentum. Once they’re big enough, they become hard to ignore. Then comes the hard part when those in power start to suppres the protests with force. If the protests continue despite this, they can gain much wider sympathy and can really change something. I have seen this several times with my own eyes, including one time when it meant a revolution.
What do you wish to achieve with this comment?
One can make useful items out of wood.
Guillotines, for example…
Gallows are another.
Guillotines are better.
Stakes
I, for one, would love to see the guy every Christian pretends is the reincarnation of Christ on a crucifix.
even better!