• Plopp@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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).

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      3 months ago

      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!”.

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        3 months ago

        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.