Trump meets the Lorax

[Azza ☠]

Trump signed an executive order to fast-track cut down over 280,000,000 acres of Forrest...

"Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production"

This includes ignoring all endangered species and other wild life that live there!

Where's the Lorax when you need him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ3fgYIUrJU

Couldn't it be something like plant 5 tree seeds for every 1 tree cut down? I guess that takes too long for Trump's short term profit gains in his short remain life span of a no future America?

Wouldn't the wild life come into residential areas, once their home is all cut down? Hope you don't mind sharing with some angry bears?

At least the raccoons will be able to adapt accordingly:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LFnfAAaqAoc

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Extinction of mankind is right on schedule. Probably wants to go whaling next.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Wow. Yall were crying about our big balls and now yall crying about our wood? Something on your mind?

Hmmmmmmmmm????

[Azza ☠]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sir Seanicus, Esq.:

Wow. Yall were crying about our big balls and now yall crying about our wood? Something on your mind?

Hmmmmmmmmm????

If you want to know what's on my mind at this moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWEEKeJLMI

I'm wondering where your cute bears will end up going during your Trump's deforestation?

[Tonepoet]

I see no mention of acreage in the executive order you cited[www.whitehouse.gov].

I mean the tariffs are going to disrupt the supply chain of lumber from Canada, so the U.S.A. needs to find new sources within itself.

Also the Lorax is a tale of how an abundance of tees was destroyed with indiscriminate and exploitative deforestation killed every single last truffula tree until the very last one was chopped down.

The U.S.A. has 818,814,000 acres of forested lands so it won't be chopping down every last tree, although 280,000,000 acres would be a rather concerning number.

It should be noted that thinning the forest could be good for it to an extent since overcrowded forests are more susceptible to wildfire.

Anyway, speaking of Truffula trees, the tree that is thought to have inspired the lorax fell down about six years ago.[www.cnn.com]

[Azza ☠]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tonepoet:

I see no mention of acreage in the executive order you cited[www.whitehouse.gov].

I mean the tariffs are going to disrupt the supply chain of lumber from Canada, so the U.S.A. needs to find new sources within itself.

Also the Lorax is a tale of how an abundance of tees was destroyed with indiscriminate and exploitative deforestation killed every single last truffula tree until the very last one was chopped down.

The U.S.A. has 818,814,000 acres of forested lands so it won't be chopping down every last tree, although 280,000,000 acres would be a rather concerning number.

It should be noted that thinning the forest could be good for it to an extent since overcrowded forests are more susceptible to wildfire.

Anyway, speaking of Truffula trees, the tree that is thought to have inspired the lorax fell down about six years ago.[www.cnn.com]

It's mostly to do with protected / endangered wildlife zone(s) removal.

Previously, there was protection for around 400 species in national forests, including grizzly bears, spotted owls and wild salmon, etc.

However, just like Trump's "drill, drill, drill" for oil, it ignores all that: ignoring climate change, pollution control, wild life care and the air quality. All just for short term profit.

And that "short term" profit greed goal has no future...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwELajFteTo

Trump is actually making the excuse of "thinning" the forest will be for wildfire risk reduction, yet ironically aggressively felling forests (that Trump demands), particularly with established, fire-resistant trees, actually increases the risk of fast-moving fires.

Either way, Trump just handed over federal public lands to the logging industry, for profit, as they had paid the bride for it. Remember back when Trump had said, just pay me $1 billion and you can change all the US laws/restrictions? Trump had promised to scrap climate laws and restriction, to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago, for just $1 billion dollars each. Noticed the companies and billionaires, whom had paid into that?

[Agenda 2025]

Plus +1 Trillion dollar debt payment for the country coming due is no joke.
Sell the Lorax too.

[CaractacusRex]

Not sure that anyone on the left has the right to criticise the right's effective use of forests. If it was left to them, they'd be left until the underbrush catches fire, all burn down and everything in them is killed anyway.

[ZZZZZ]

last president who did cut down forests to own the libs lost his following election

[CaractacusRex]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ZZZZZ:

last president who did cut down forests to own the libs lost his following election

What election is Trump facing?

[ZZZZZ]

Diposting pertama kali oleh CaractacusRex:

Diposting pertama kali oleh ZZZZZ:

last president who did cut down forests to own the libs lost his following election

What election is Trump facing?

I guess that completely depends on his skill level

[Tonepoet]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Azza ☠:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Tonepoet:

I see no mention of acreage in the executive order you cited[www.whitehouse.gov].

I mean the tariffs are going to disrupt the supply chain of lumber from Canada, so the U.S.A. needs to find new sources within itself.

Also the Lorax is a tale of how an abundance of tees was destroyed with indiscriminate and exploitative deforestation killed every single last truffula tree until the very last one was chopped down.

The U.S.A. has 818,814,000 acres of forested lands so it won't be chopping down every last tree, although 280,000,000 acres would be a rather concerning number.

It should be noted that thinning the forest could be good for it to an extent since overcrowded forests are more susceptible to wildfire.

Anyway, speaking of Truffula trees, the tree that is thought to have inspired the lorax fell down about six years ago.[www.cnn.com]

It's mostly to do with protected / endangered wildlife zone(s) removal.

Previously, there was protection for around 400 species in national forests, including grizzly bears, spotted owls and wild salmon, etc.

However, just like Trump's "drill, drill, drill" for oil, it ignores all that: ignoring climate change, pollution control, wild life care and the air quality. All just for short term profit.

And that "short term" profit greed goal has no future...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwELajFteTo

Trump is actually making the excuse of "thinning" the forest will be for wildfire risk reduction, yet ironically aggressively felling forests (that Trump demands), particularly with established, fire-resistant trees, actually increases the risk of fast-moving fires.

Either way, Trump just handed over federal public lands to the logging industry, for profit, as they had paid the bride for it. Remember back when Trump had said, just pay me $1 billion and you can change all the US laws/restrictions? Trump had promised to scrap climate laws and restriction, to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago, for just $1 billion dollars each. Noticed the companies and billionaires, whom had paid into that?

Well that doesn't sound good, although I'm no environmental expert so I can't really say much about what the best course of action is or isn't. Since you've brought up the logging industry and replanting trees, I do know that the logging industry does usually try to replant trees once chopped down. No trees means no timber after-all.

Looks like Trump passed the Trillion Trees act during his first term, although this article is actually quite critical of it claiming that it's merely an excuse for unsustainable practices[www.nrdc.org].

The U.S.A. is going to source its lumber needs from somewhere though, and I suppose there is environmental upside to sourcing it locally:

First, reducing dependence on Canadian forests means the forests in Canada aren't logged as much and have a chance to regrow. This is of course assuming

Second, sourcing lumber closer to where it will actually be used reduces the carbon footprint of transporting it Of course, the U.S.A. is so vast that I can't take this as an absolute given, but it seems probable that on average that lumber sourced in the U.S.A. will be closer than lumber sourced from another nation.

Logging is always going to be environmentally disruptive, but as long as people want thneeds, the onceler is going to cut down the Truffula trees until there are none left. Part of the question has to be what the best way to go about it is.

Also long as we are concerning ourselves about this, it's probably worth noting that we could stand to make use of fewer virgin paper disposables. Making things like toilet paper and paper towels from virgin fibers seems to be a waste of trees. Bamboo also tends to regrow more quickly than trees do.

The lumber industry will modulate the rate at which it cuts down trees in response to the demand of cutting down trees, so using recycled paper wherever practical is possibly a good idea, especially if it's post-consumer recycling.

[salamander]

remember the memes about that awful animated lorax film? how ba-a-a-a-a-d can i beeeee?

[MinionJoe]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Azza ☠:

I'm wondering where your cute bears will end up going during your Trump's deforestation?

Easy. Canada.

[Azza ☠]

Diposting pertama kali oleh MinionJoe:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Azza ☠:

I'm wondering where your cute bears will end up going during your Trump's deforestation?

Easy. Canada.

Oh but it's not only Canada... Canada just can currently see it clearer now.

[Tonepoet]

Diposting pertama kali oleh MinionJoe:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Azza ☠:

I'm wondering where your cute bears will end up going during your Trump's deforestation?

Easy. Canada.

Canada charges a retaliatory tariff on American bears and deports them back south of the border though. >_>