About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin
www.theguardian.com
Satellite image analysis shows 329 hectares of forest cleared during development of factory in Germany
  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days 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.

  • lnxtx@feddit.nlEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Is it cheaper to cut down a forest than to buy a agriculture field?

    • Random123@fedia.io
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      28 days ago

      Probably since physical labor jobs is valued so cheap and thats not mentioning that immigrants are easily used for that kind of work for even cheaper

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      28 days 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 and instead build a factory.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days 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 and smart as they would like the rest of us to think

  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
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    28 days ago

    The ‘forest’ cut down there is just a wood farm. There’s no ecosystem lost, since these farm are basically sterile

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
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        27 days ago

        As @Encrypt-Keeper put it so well:

        Trees are trees, but trees aren’t forests.

        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.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        27 days 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 apocalyptic ecological damage, because they’re the wrong kind.

        Cutting down all those trees in a tree farm isn’t hurting the environment very much for the same reason that randomly planting a bunch of trees for a tree farm doesn’t help the environment, which is why conservation is so important.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Trees planted there to farm wood. It’s a wood farm, not a natural forest. Get over it already.

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    27 days 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.