Sincerely with rocket launches now being a daily thing i’m not very worried by that burning lumber.
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Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
aside from the obvious “rich people exploiting the environment with their hippy party that costs $200 for their cheapest tickets,” I saw a video online that brought up a good point that I never considered. The cost of lumber has increased exponentially in the past 3 years alone, jumping to nearly $1700 per 1000 feet at its peak in 2021, but staying between $400 and $600 per 1000 feet in recent months (still high compared to say 10 years ago.) And these people are buying tens of thousands of feet of lumber solely to burn it away in the middle of nowhere where there’s little vegetation to absorb the excess CO2 waste. That, along with the climate change protesters being police brutalized just before the event, really puts a sour taste in people’s mouths. Especially in a time where “once in a lifetime” weather events seem to be back-to-back.
economic data from: tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber
kitos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Apollo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Rockets mostly use hydrogen as fuel, burning wood is way more polluting than burning hydrogren.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also John Wilson tried to go shoot at the event and after compiling hours of footage was told that he couldn’t use any of it because there was some exclusive licensed coverage provider for the event.
Pipoca@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And these people are buying tens of thousands of feet of lumber solely to burn it away in the middle of nowhere where there’s little vegetation to absorb the excess CO2 waste.
That’s not really how plants work.
Photosynthesis turns co2 + water into sugar + oxygen. Cellular respiration turns sugar + oxygen into co2 + water.
The total co2 absorbed by a plant is exactly equal to the amount of co2 used to make all the sugar, cellulose, etc. the plant currently has. Digestion, decomposition, fires etc. undo that.
A mature forest or lawn is carbon neutral: new growth is balanced out by decomposition of old growth.
Distance to plants doesn’t matter. What matters is if and how the trees they’re burning are being replanted or replaced. .
Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thanks for the correction. That helps me better understand how counteracting pollution works
zouden@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Burning wood just releases the co2 absorbed when growing it.
Scribbd@feddit.nl 1 year ago
What are fossil fuels other than captured carbon from plants and animals from long ago?
Rereleasing carbon is the problem now. Wood being sustainable needs the a non-surplus in carbon emissions to begin with.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Everything is “carbon neutral” on a long enough timescale. One of many reasons why that expression is 100% unadulterated bollocks. If you’re an airline, you can’t just offset the damage you do by paying a Bangladeshi farmer two dollars to throw some tree seeds on the ground.
Scribbd@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Burning man should become Burried man. Everybody should dig a hole and burry the wood. That is carbon capture.
I am not an expert. So this could just be a naive take. I wouldn’t be surprised burying wood actually amplifies the carbon emissions due to some reactions with soil, or something.
xatlw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tickets cost about 10x that. I was interested back when it was a cool art exchange, freedom event. But SO many people flock to it as a giant party that it’s become restrictive unless your volunteering or bringing an exhibit.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
From old burners I have talked to, the entire experience has completely changed. Alcohol used to be frowned upon, now it’s common place.