Comment on How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time?

Azzu@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tomorrow. Because it takes a fucking long time for trees to grow.

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  • Azzu@leminal.space ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are roughly 3 trillion trees on earth. Even if they don’t replenish, at 1000/day you need roughly 8 million years to run out.

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    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That got me wondering how many we actually cut down each day

      Apparently it’s 41 million a day

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