Comment on About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  With that logic we could cut down pretty much every single forest in Sweden and tell people to stop crying about it.

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  • holgersson@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The point is not that sweden is selling every inch of land to elon.

      The point is that every forest in sweden is “commercial forest” so it’s a meaningless distinction.

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      • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ok, but take a step back. You’re now using the lack of original forest in Sweden to somehow argue against commercial forest in Germany being chopped down to make way for construction.

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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