Comment on About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWith that logic we could cut down pretty much every single forest in Sweden and tell people to stop crying about it.
Comment on About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWith that logic we could cut down pretty much every single forest in Sweden and tell people to stop crying about it.
holgersson@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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 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.
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.
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.