The ‘forest’ cut down there is just a wood farm. There’s no ecosystem lost, since these farm are basically sterile
Trees planted there to farm wood. It’s a wood farm, not a natural forest. Get over it already.
With that logic we could cut down pretty much every single forest in Sweden and tell people to stop crying about it.
Edit: Why the down votes? We pretty much have no natural forests left in Sweden. It’s basically all mono cultures planted with the intent to be cut down and sold. But if that’s the only forests you have they’re still very valuable (as forests I mean).
Why the downvotes
I for my part downvoted because it’s just false equivalence. Cutting down a part of a commercial forest is pretty far from completely cutting “every single forest” in Sweden.
Is it great that trees were cut down without replanting? No.
Is there a perfectly cleared and infrastructurally connected plot of land in Brandenburg that Tesla could have used instead? Also no.
Your comparison was basically the same as “We sell a plot of land to Elon? Why not just sell every plot of land to him then!”.
Ah I see the problem then. I wasn’t trying to equate anything. I was simply addressing the reasoning behind the statement (that non-natural forests don’t matter), taking it to the extreme to make point. I don’t know anything about the forest in question, and I wasn’t talking about it.
Wanna bet that gigafactory somehow gets closed down or cancelled before opening? Tesla might not even survive that long.
Unlikely as it opened in 2022…
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Your comment looks sexy on sync
I’m on Sync for Android and mine doesn’t line up.
I’m on Android 15 Beta, maybe this has an effect on the layout ?
It lines up for me on Jerboa
You guys can see profile pictures?
Is it cheaper to cut down a forest than to buy a agriculture field?
Is it cheaper to cut down a forest than to buy a agriculture field?
That area was planted to be cut down. It was a monoculture for wood harvesting and the surrounding area still is, AFAIK. The only change to the original plan has been to not plant young trees again after cutting everything down and instead build a factory.
Effectively, they did buy an agriculture field.
Depends. If you need specific location for logistic reasons, in the long run it might be
Probably since physical labor jobs is valued so cheap and thats not mentioning that immigrants are easily used for that kind of work for even cheaper
I’m gonna go ahead and guess cyber truck 2 is going to be made of wood.
CyberTruck X(ylem).
The wooden Cyber Truck is already a thing. Relevant video:
The number of trees is Europe is growing quickly. In fact, terribly so, this is an official part of the carbon mitigation strategy of many western democracies.
You can be angry about a lot of things but unless this is some ancient yewtree wood, this is honestly a nothing-burger.
soggy biscuit
tesla and elon have never been about being eco friendly or environmentally conscious
Can’t we just find some kind of space vehicle to put Musk in and fling it at Mars? He always wanted to go there I’ve heard.
Bet if we bury him in a spacesuit and a chrome coffin he wouldn’t know the difference.
Elon hate porn.
Jesus Christ guys. Elon lives in your head rent free.
When talking trade-offs you can’t just compare a combustion engine to an electric engine, you gotta consider electric public transport too. This has the bonus of pissing on Musk.
Germany wanted this. They courted and kissed Elon’s ass for this. For all their pr, I’ve learned that Germans aren’t as progressive and smart as they would like the rest of us to think
Where’d you hear Germans are progressive? 😄
Compared to (parts of) the US, we might aswell be.
What? They just let them cut down trees to build things!? Bastards!
Mr. Musk, on a scale of 1-10, how tempted are you to build a bunker in Berlin?
