I want to hear from all yall down voters.
Here’s some more, similar knowledge
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1182/electric-vehicles-are-stealth-rainforest-killers
Pin pointing EVs for wood is pretty dumb, imo. A lot more wood is used for housing and furniture. There’s also a lot of plastic in cars, a lot more than the wood used to put up… what’s the article angry about? Oh… power lines.
Just reality. I thought it was pretty clear but I’ll say it anyway, it’s angry about deforestation, with a particular emphasis on old trees, hundreds, setumes thousand year old lynchpins in an already devastated ecosystems.
As I have never actually seen a local power line (and the high voltage ones obviously don’t use wood), can I get some feedback which countries actually use overland lines using wood for their local grid?
(Also @WarmSoda…)
America. It’s an enormously huge country with a lot of infrastructure built in waves as people moved west across it. Huge amounts of small towns and cities everywhere that built thier grids using poles and just haven’t upgraded since because of the cost of replacing all of it and burying two centuries of cable.
There’s also large areas where burying electric cables just isn’t feasible for various reasons. It’s not a simple change.
What a fuckin stupid article. You’re harming your movement sharing shite like that.
In actually-developed countries, power lines are underground now, and every time a pole needs replacing, it disappears
Youre wrong
TIL progress is wrong
Burying lines may or may not be progress. That’s not what I said
Wood is renewable.
It definitely can be, but it still usually isn’t depending on where it comes from. IKEA is still busy selling the little remaining european old-growth forest they acquired through questionable means, as certified, renewable, eco-friendly, cheap-as-shit furniture.
Where ikea use the old tree ? Most of what they sold uses very low quality plywood
They do sell some hardwood stuff as a premium option, but they also use it as veneer.
veneer
I totally forgot that, that’s make a lot of sense.
2 big problems with that statement. 1st, it’s being harvested at a much greater rate than it’s being replenished. Second, old trees and old forests are far more valuable to the ecosystem than the cookie cutter “forests” planted after harvests.
Europeans forest are growing back, so your first statement isn’t true:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/forest-europe-environment/Then, younger forest have less valuable ecosystem but are better at absorbing CO2, which is the biggest priority.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/557988Glad to hear it’s going well in Western Europe, but that’s far from the norm.
My point is trees are much more than wood.
This is asinine.
