Trees planted in a line with clear cuts in the distance..
Looks like corporate profits to me.
Yep. A tree farm that doesn't support any important ecosystem but does support profits.
tbh its the only type of forest left to take pictures of
Also: monoculture.
Also: monoculture of conifers which can "poison" the surrounding area due to the overload of needles falling to the ground and acidifying it. Especially problematic in vicinity to rivers, brooks or other water bodies as this can lead to "toxic flushes". Learned that from Mossy Earth: https://www.mossy.earth/projects/riparian-restoration-glassie-farm
Yeah the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders
I don't usually like snarky dismissive comments, but.
c/im14andthisisdeep
Stop using wood furniture. Don't live in wooden houses and make sure to demand a plastic straw next time you have a burger and there will be less profits.
Hi there, I'm just wondering does Shell pay well? I was thinking of moving over to them after the Soros and Koch checks dry up post election.
*Capitalists
FTFY
Yeah. I genuinely think it's definitely not most people. And most people aren't greedy.
But living in a society where the power is with the small insane minority who is greedy and blind to consequences will make a society in which even non-greedy people end up making "financially smart" decuisions (read:selfish gain at the possible cost to others, like cheap items despite knowing they come from countries with very badly exploited workers).
But yeah, I'm honestly of the opinion that we genuinely have only one massive problem on this planet, and it's the psyche of these money/powerhungry fucks. And while it might be somewhat common — ambition is not be frowned upon, as long as you're even vaguely moral — the truly pathological version comes when an ambitious psyche is twisted by our already somewhat twisted society.
Here's a nice piece from a self-confessed money addict, former wall street trader. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html he's also written an entire book about it.
So what could be done about this? Well, it's genuinely an addiction and lack of empathy. Do we have any medication with anti-addictive and perhaps empathy-generating qualities?
We do, actually. They've been under lock and key for almost 100 years, because they're potentially the antidote to the ills of our world, and the psyches of the powerful fear such things.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathogen
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/antiaddictive
The humans whom decided that most certainly did not see that.
After watching Pocahontas for the first time in many years, it shocked me that anyone could value personal wealth over coexisting. The antagonist only cares about mining out gold, looking at the hills as having potential as opposed to perceiving them as implicitly valuable as they are. Nature is worth protecting.
it shocked me that anyone could value personal wealth over coexisting
Laughs in freedom units
Really? I think a pretty healthy portion of the land above the 30th parallel until the Arctic circle looks something like this
Until it's profitable to ruin it
Not for long. It's going to burn.
Monocultural woodland needs addressing too
More they found a better spot somewhere else, so the destruction of this spot doesn't impact them
i'm convinced that this is a reason we were a massive force in the first and second world war. Without the sacrifice of our vast natural resources, i'm not convinced the world, let alone america would be where it is today.
To be fair, we deluded ourselves into thinking we were the special ones that all this was created for, and deities wouldn't let it be ruined unless we displeased them. There's still a lot of people who believe that. And as late as the 1990s it was easy for a normal person to think the scientists were just being dramatic.
Of course now with a top ten heat year, every year, for the last several years, and breaking the record for half of them, it's easy to look back and be harsh.
Leadership should have been more responsible. But they're just normal people too. The decision was truly made by the oil corporations whose own studies told them this was happening. And they spent billions over the decades to fund denialism.
Some goblin that looks like mark Davis standing above it all:
"Look at all these unrealized profit opportunities!"
To be fair… they’re not humans.
