Trees planted there to farm wood. It’s a wood farm, not a natural forest. Get over it already.
About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian
Submitted 4 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Plopp@lemmy.world 4 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 4 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!”.
lemmy_99c4zb3e3@reddthat.com 4 months ago
[deleted]AAA@feddit.org 4 months ago
You are correct. It was a monoculture forest and designed to be cut down sooner or later anyway.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Yeah, it was just naturally monoculture. So now it’s naturally concrete. Whats the big deal?!?! \s
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wanna bet that gigafactory somehow gets closed down or cancelled before opening? Tesla might not even survive that long.
ludw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Unlikely as it opened in 2022…
lnxtx@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Is it cheaper to cut down a forest than to buy a agriculture field?
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Is it cheaper to cut down a forest than to buy a agriculture field?
That area was planted to be cut down. It was a monoculture for wood harvesting and the surrounding area still is, AFAIK. The only change to the original plan has been to not plant young trees again after cutting everything down.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Effectively, they did buy an agriculture field.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’m gonna go ahead and guess cyber truck 2 is going to be made of wood.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
CyberTruck X(ylem).
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The wooden Cyber Truck is already a thing. Relevant video:
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 months ago
The number of trees is Europe is growing quickly. In fact, terribly so, this is an official part of the carbon mitigation strategy of many western democracies.
You can be angry about a lot of things but unless this is some ancient yewtree wood, this is honestly a nothing-burger.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 months ago
soggy biscuit
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Electric cars are here to save the oil and auto industries, not the planet or humanity.
derpgon@programming.dev 4 months ago
I’d rather not have a Tesla even if it meant I dont have an EV ever. Crappy overpriced cars.
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Currently yeah, but why can’t we see electric cars as the step towards getting rid of oil? More electric cars will make more and more people want cleaner energy. Where eventually the fuel to run the cars comes from fully renewable sources.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Elon hate porn.
Jesus Christ guys. Elon lives in your head rent free.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
tesla and elon have never been about being eco friendly or environmentally conscious
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Can’t we just find some kind of space vehicle to put Musk in and fling it at Mars? He always wanted to go there I’ve heard.
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Bet if we bury him in a spacesuit and a chrome coffin he wouldn’t know the difference.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Germany wanted this. They courted and kissed Elon’s ass for this. For all their pr, I’ve learned that Germans aren’t as progressive as they would like the rest of us to think
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Where’d you hear Germans are progressive? 😄
holgersson@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Compared to (parts of) the US, we might aswell be.
tabular@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When talking trade-offs you can’t just compare a combustion engine to an electric engine, you gotta consider electric public transport too. This has the bonus of pissing on Musk.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Also light EVs. They hundreds of times more efficient and sustainable.
tabular@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t go out much but if I did an ebike is the way to go, if it wasn’t raining.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
What? They just let them cut down trees to build things!? Bastards!
yesman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mr. Musk, on a scale of 1-10, how tempted are you to build a bunker in Berlin?
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 months ago
The ‘forest’ cut down there is just a wood farm. There’s no ecosystem lost, since these farm are basically sterile
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Wow. All star naturalist here.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 months ago
As @Encrypt-Keeper put it so well:
Forests are what’s actually worth prtotecting. This is not different from a field of corn. There is no ecological value to a farm of pine trees. If you ever walked in one, you would know that.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Trees are trees, they still have a huge impact on the environment.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Trees are trees, but trees aren’t forests. And a trees don’t have nearly the ecological impact of forests. In fact, in the U.S. and around the world we have the problem of way too many trees, which is causing ecological damage, because they’re the wrong kind.