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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.

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[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 12 hours ago

guess we protesting to stop logging next

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Literally Saruman.
Revolt happened.
Saruman died on a spike.

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is Nostradamus about Trump's fall?

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 83 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Uhm, why can he just decide this? Not part of his expertise or departement.

[–] suite403@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

That our government has been reacting to his shit rather than controlling it is infuriating.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

National Forest Service is a part of the Department of Agriculture, part of the executive branch.

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[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Trump doesn't like that the US buys lumber from Canada. He's going to announce 34% tariffs on lumber from Canada in the next few days.

[–] stormdahl@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

In addition to the blanket tariffs already announced? Seriously I think that guy might be an evil alien supervillain or something. He seems to be doing his best to ruin the world in any way he can.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 10 points 22 hours ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-hikes-softwood-lumber-duties-1.7503120

He's out to cripple Canada's economy, then he'll attempt to invade it. True evil.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 18 hours ago

I honestly would prefer that. I don't want to think of Trump as a member of the human race. Plus, it would imply that the bad guys are actually competent. The Trump Regime isn't just evil, it is weaponized secondhand embarrassment.

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Cutting down old growth Forrest take 50 years to repair the area after its stopped. What a mess.

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Way longer than that. What grows back is not old growth

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 points 22 hours ago

Yep, can't fix it in our lifetime

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

I thought i watch a video talking about 50 to 100 but its random YouTube guy soo you could be right and could very dependent on environment. Desertfication is hard to fix.

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

One of the many reasons I'm pissed at his voters every single day.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 246 points 1 day ago (46 children)

These are our forests. They belong to the US people. They're being stolen from us. For private profit of a few.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 day ago

It's an American tradition.

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[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 156 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Trump is speedrunning to aim for the lowest biodiversity index in North America.

Maybe if we stop ridiculously subisidising corn everywhere, some that gets thrown away because we have way too much, we could replace a couple dozen sq km of corn fields with more sustainable agroforestry, and thereby massively increase our logging output, instead of yk, cutting down the last wildlife sanctuaries? Not holding my breath tho.

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[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Then i guess it's time to start living up to the old namesake.

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