Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 day agoAs someone who has a degree in wildlife conservation and has always been my dream to work for the Forest Services and have a career protecting what is left of this nation’s natural wonder.
And they are doing this explicitly for the purposes of letting the logging and oil industry rape these natural wonders for fucking profit. For fake, imaginary fucking social value of which they already possess an obscene amount.
I cannot describe my anger and loathing.
bampop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Imagine what a tiny increment in their profit margins this will produce, what an infinitesimal impact it will have on the wealth, and standard of living of a handful of individuals. And for this you fuck up an irreplaceable natural heritage which is there for the whole world. It shows that the value such people place on the natural world is zero or less. Maybe they hate it because they don’t understand why normal people love it. Maybe it’s just that they will feel richer when they have made us all poorer.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Trust, I am well aware. Part of a conservation degree is economics, because conservation directly has to argue in economic terms in order to persuade governments and stakeholders for support of passing legislation.
Unfortunately, the powers that be seem to have stopped caring entirely, even if only performatively. They want it all and they don’t wish to negotiate anymore.