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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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[-] stormdahl@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

That is just... Insane. Incredibly sad.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Fucking murder this fuck

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is Nostradamus about Trumps fall?

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[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago

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.

https://youtu.be/efs5-FCVWvg

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 10 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 61 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] suite403@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 34 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

Other than the Pacific northwest most U.S. forest trees do not make good building lumber.

[-] stormdahl@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

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 3 points 3 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.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 28 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Yep, can't fix it in our lifetime

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 6 hours 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 8 points 9 hours ago

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

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