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Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn’t going to do that.
That is just… Insane. Incredibly sad.
The trees can’t be harmed if the lorax is armed. You touch his trees, he aims for your knees.
Go go go, Tonya Harding!
My body is not ready for the amount of alcohol and dancing I am going to force myself to take part in on the day this motherfucker dies and goes to hell.
Literally, the most destructive and evil human on the planet since Hitler. I can’t wait until the worms get him. I kind of feel bad for them, but I guess it’s part of the job.
That scene in the matrix 2
A hundred years from now the planet will be in a pretty good shape, forests have been regrown and the seas will have been cleaned up and repopulated with fish, except for the US which is a giant hole. Not from bombs exploding, but from strip-mining the whole place for resources.
No president can ever make everyone happy.
Trump does this, and people get mad because he’s taking away our trees and ruining our country. Under another president, we instead get trees from another country, and people get mad because we’re ruining that country. (has happened in the past)
don’t we have enough working forests to satisfy demand for lumber? even if we open some BLM land to logging, do we really need to log literally half of it?
I really don’t know. I’m sure we have been importing more than most of us think. I’m guessing it has to do with it not being private property, but already being under government control.
Assuming the other half is where they plan to install the oil derricks…
Is there a list of which forests opened for logging?
I can’t find one, I’d like to see a map but I don’t expect there is one.
Probably all of them, start with half then charge more to open the second half.
Fuck. This kind of shit is why I feel the need for revenge on these people. They’re slashing forests and impoverishing the population. It’s not enough for them to lose an election. they need to pay
I want my pound of fucking flesh.
The USA will resemble Russia, China and Mordor.
America is a dumpster fire lol, they have all these “checks and balances” but then one guy can just make all the trade policy and land use decisions by decree. What even is the point of their congress
Checks and balances all died with citizens united….only one left is the second amendment
The problem is that Congress is controlled by people who are Trump sycophants — the Republican Party kicked out everybody who wasn’t.
All governments at some level run on the honor system. When the whole government colludes to not honor the system, you get this.
There isn’t much purpose for congress anymore. Biden was doing the same thing. I think we should just do away with presidents, only have the House and the Senate. If nothing else, stop allowing the presidents to use executive orders. They really aren’t legal the way they are used.
Any solution that stops short of essentially a factory reset (really should go further tbh) is going to land us here again
There is a lot wrong, that’s for sure.
Problem is that both houses majorities support the lunatic, right now they’ve more or less given him a blank check to operate.
Historically, the two party system has meant that Congress either votes with the presidents wishes or against when it comes to legislation, but Congress doesn’t directly approve/disprove of executive orders. To oppose executive orders, Congress needs to pass laws that override the orders. That wont happen unless the majority becomes convinced they’ll lose elections if they keep supporting trump.
It’ll be up to the Judicial Branch to directly rule for/against this order. But the judicial branch only truly has power so long as the executive complies. We’re close to hitting the test of that power balance on some of his earlier orders.
Fun fact: the law enforcement of the Judicial Branch is technically an agency under the Executive Branch. Not a problem if people are largely operating in good faith with the law, or at least fear repurcussions if they don’t comply… But since Trump doesn’t fear repurcussion, this fun fact may be the oversight that breaks the consitution.
Trump has two legs. Just sayin
The Black Knight always triumphs!
It’s just a flesh wound!
So just cut one off. Gotcha
We get 30% of our lumber from Canada. This is the inevitable consequence of shutting our borders to trade via tariffs - if these policies stick around for four years, sure, we may bring some manufacturing home at great immediate cost, but we’ll also be bringing home the environmental burdens of manufacturing (the negative externalities) which we’ve been pushing onto other countries and ignoring for decades. In the meantime, other countries have started to learn how to handle those externalities, like China’s big push for solar power. In America, we’ve got an idiot who is rolling back worker safety, health and environmental protections, the list goes on. So even if these tariffs worked, we’re going to be living in a less healthy place, all in the name of jobs…
This has nothing to do with the tariffs; even if those weren’t happening Trump would be selling the trees off to his cronies anyway. It’s a blatantly corrupt kleptocracy.
It has everything to do with lumber tariffs, it’s just the other end of the equation. The forests are the supply, and the tariffs will create the demand.
They are privatizing every single thing.
Nothing to do with Tariffs. They just make the business more juicy for his cronies.
Just wondering, what makes a forest a national forest and does this include trees in national parks or are they protected?
Safe to say, nothing’s protected from this admin
