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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.
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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.
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.