Comment on About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Trees planted there to farm wood. It’s a wood farm, not a natural forest. Get over it already.
Comment on About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Trees planted there to farm wood. It’s a wood farm, not a natural forest. Get over it already.
Plopp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
With that logic we could cut down pretty much every single forest in Sweden and tell people to stop crying about it.
holgersson@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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!”.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 months 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.
Plopp@lemmy.world 2 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.