Recently the hashtag #10yearchallenge went viral with people from all around the world sharing their changes throughout the years. Some people decided to use the hashtag to warn people about the terrible impact we are having on this earth. One of the biggest environmental problems in 21st century is deforestation, and that's exactly what people tried to warn us about. Unfortunately, the image that was used to spread the message was fake - the before and after photos of a rainforest cut down completely was actually the same photo.
[ - ] germ22 1 point 2.9 yearsJul 20, 2022 09:27:54 ago (+1/-0)
Yup. And if you'd travel back in time about 100 year and check out the area between Sault St Marie and Sudbury, probably all the way to Ottawa, you would see almost all of the forests clear cut. Drive around these areas now you would never guess that there were no trees there 100 years ago. Plenty of places are being harvested second or even third time.
Deforestation is a real problem. If you feed niggers, they breed and cut down trees. But they don't know how to take care of the land so the Sahara expands.
Brazilians have a similar effect, but there are more steps.
Here's my default response to anyone and everyone that buys into the whole "save the planet, plant trees" narrative, even minimally: Paper.
I establish a mutual understanding of market forces and pricing first. They agree that as something becomes scarce, its price naturally rises.
And so... paper.
You can go to basically every corner of the (civilized) world and buy a ream of paper for a couple bucks. There's never been a real "paper shortage" or runs on paper. Hell, in common parlance there's a greater accepted notion that ink is the thing that runs out.
Even as junk food increases in price and quantities on goyslop are reduced, the same hasn't happened to paper. It's held at essentially the same price, save for inflation and other monetary jewry.
And that's because paper mills are directly incentivized to plant more trees. In fact, the world is currently greener than it's ever been in its entire history, even if you completely ignore the efforts of all the "hurr durr plant trees" (((charities))).
I've only ever gotten one response to this: "hurr durr but splooge, tats cuz ppl hav been goin paperless!"
I know it's not very likely, but I look forward to a day when comments like "email it to me, save some trees" are met with ridicule as a base response.
If you want more trees to be planted, buy more paper, I dunno. Fuck you envirocucks. Eat your bugs.
I am under the impression that we have planted and introduced so much more invasive plants to the Amazon and the planet it now has more growth than it did 100 years ago.
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[ + ] germ22
[ - ] germ22 1 point 2.9 yearsJul 20, 2022 09:27:54 ago (+1/-0)
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[ + ] TheYiddler
[ - ] TheYiddler 7 points 2.9 yearsJul 20, 2022 07:30:11 ago (+7/-0)
Brazilians have a similar effect, but there are more steps.
[ + ] Splooge
[ - ] Splooge 4 points 2.9 yearsJul 20, 2022 08:05:21 ago (+4/-0)
I establish a mutual understanding of market forces and pricing first. They agree that as something becomes scarce, its price naturally rises.
And so... paper.
You can go to basically every corner of the (civilized) world and buy a ream of paper for a couple bucks. There's never been a real "paper shortage" or runs on paper. Hell, in common parlance there's a greater accepted notion that ink is the thing that runs out.
Even as junk food increases in price and quantities on goyslop are reduced, the same hasn't happened to paper. It's held at essentially the same price, save for inflation and other monetary jewry.
And that's because paper mills are directly incentivized to plant more trees. In fact, the world is currently greener than it's ever been in its entire history, even if you completely ignore the efforts of all the "hurr durr plant trees" (((charities))).
I've only ever gotten one response to this: "hurr durr but splooge, tats cuz ppl hav been goin paperless!"
Okay. Except if you look at the stats:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/252710/total-us-consumption-of-paper-and-board-since-2001/
Compared to the price:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/895034/price-index-paper-us/
There's zero parity.
I know it's not very likely, but I look forward to a day when comments like "email it to me, save some trees" are met with ridicule as a base response.
If you want more trees to be planted, buy more paper, I dunno. Fuck you envirocucks. Eat your bugs.
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[ - ] Boardallday3 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 20, 2022 14:00:47 ago (+0/-0)
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[ - ] RedBarchetta 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 20, 2022 09:12:34 ago (+0/-0)