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Forests are being chopped up for investment properties
Yup, I also do the opposite of forest bathing, I also have a morbid curiosity which is visiting clearcuts. Most people have seen a clearcut on TV but to see one from the ground will leave you speechless. It's a total disregard for all life on earth. Entire forests gone in the span of an afternoon. There's no sound, no birds or anything. Scorching hot because there's no moisture or shade. Hundreds of years ago, it might take a team of men all day to fall a single old growth cedar. Now there are air conditioned machines that can do it in a fraction of the time. Every time I visit the north island and I see a semi truck loaded with a single thousand year old tree I basically just cry.
Look at BC on satellite view, it's an absolute disaster. I am one of those people who defends old growth with their life, I was recently at the fairy creek blockades
Though its not for investment... Its to necessitate human life. Where do you think Europe gets its wood? UK's entire power grid is powered by BC woodchips. The entire pnw but most notably BC is just the world's tree farm and, call me an eco fascist if you want, but there are too many people on earth plain and simple. Overpopulation isn't a conspiracy. Come see the tree farm for yourself, it's apocalyptic.
And mining
Which is destroying watersheds, and therefore the ocean, and therefore the forest.
But hey, we need to mine to make more EVs! EVs are here to save the planet!!
We plant more trees than we chop down every year.
A lot of the trees being cut down are old growth forests, there are nearly no old growth forests left on the whole continent and some animals specifically need old forests with their diversity of species and with different ages of trees throughout. Things grow back differently when you clear cut a section than when an old tree died and falls here and there or is harvested sparingly without destroying the surrounding trees and underbrush, so the lack of selectivity when harvesting is also harmful. Cutting down everything and replanting one species that grows ok in a clear cut area doesn’t restore the forest. Look at longleaf pine forests, for example. Nearly the entire southern US used to be longleaf pine and now it only exists in 3% of its former range. The southern US is still covered in pine, but it mostly got replaced with loblolly pines. You can replant some trees, but you can’t replant a whole complex forest ecosystem, and many of the trees people replant are ones they think they can personally profit from like the fast growing loblolly pines rather than slow growing species that need special care and land management practices to maintain good growing conditions.