Everything else aside… What the fuck is so urgent about cutting down forests that you need a emergency order to green-light it?
Nothing. The “emergency order” is entirely so he doesn’t have to go through Congress to do it.
“I can do anything I want if it’s an emergency!”
Dang i wonder if we can find example of emergency powers eroding democracy in the past now…
Quickly becoming his go to play. It’s how he pushed through tariffs and how he was able to auto deport all those people. There’s probably more that I’m unaware of but the amount of national emergencies the man has declared so far is kinda crazy
Building “freedom cities” for billionaires, maybe. In his '23 announcement, it specifically stated:
Freedom Cities will be built on federal land that is undeveloped and not part of any of our country’s magnificent national parks or other natural treasures.
Which I assume means they’ll be built on your parks?
(for anyone scrolling past like, “wtf are freedom cities” - it’s feudalism. The Company Town. Literally lords and serfs type shit. Plenty of good places to read more about it, but here’s one to start.)
It was nice to have a planet while it lasted, I guess.
Has anyone actually done the co2 math and the amount of other gases we have to reverse?
It will blow your mind. Dont look up.
Basically everything we have ever consumed for carbonous goods or fuel sources has to be reversed.
It’s crazy how republicans are framing cutting down forests as a “good way to prevent arsons”
2024 cost US 500 billion in hurricane costs. and how to you counter that, plant more trees not cut them down. he is the biggest clown in human history
Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.
I love that this map still has the Gulf of Mexico.
I hate that this will be done to our national forests. They’re a natural treasure and should be protected for so many reasons.
since Canadian lumber has a tariff making it so expensive now they will chop down the US forests for the value of lumber is high
On another thread, another lemming explained that our logging industry can’t even use the trees from national parks because we’ve specialized all of our mills to specifically sized (and possibly specific kinds of?) trees. The trees from national parks would basically just end up being used for pulp instead of building homes or something.
building homes
You think anyone in this administration gives a shit about the housing situation!? This is an article about our (We The People) national forests! They’re stripping the country for parts. Fuck, when’s the next date we all protest and march!?
No, I don’t think for one second that they care about getting people housed.
Turning the US into Isengard. Nice
Why do you think that company is called Palantir lmao. I wish I wasn’t joking, but it is this stupid if you poke around a bit at the neoreactionary obsessions with LOTR.
Wait, the neoreactionaries actually want to be like Isengard and not like, based trad gondor or something like that? I kinda figured it was just called palantir cause they thought it was a cool reference and cause peter thiel is just naturally sinister like that
The metaverse is named after a VR program in Snow Crash, in which it is a tool that an evil corporation wants to use to brainwash and enslave all of humanity except for some very rich people. My take is that these dweebs will take any power fantasy they can get, and being the powerful evil organization is a lot easier to actually live out than being the lone hacker with a samurai sword or hobbit or whatever who stops them.
Yeah I hate that company and it’s name so much
thiel is obsessed with lotr, thats why he also made/or funded anduril.
do you remember when in minecraft you chopped down a forest for wood and didn’t replant it? remember how you had to go to triple the distance to find another one, wasting even more time?
Not sure they won’t be replanted, but a 600 year old redwood looks a bit different than a 5 year old pine tree.
Not happy with destroying our society anymore. Now they have to physically destroy our country.
This is what happens when you allow conservatives to have control.
I’d ask Americans to make better decisions going forward, but we all know that isn’t happening.
RIP.
Do you know why greece is so barren? Because in antiquity they chopped all the trees for their navy
And so all that Roosevelt worked for is sentenced to death.
What’s the emergency? Climate change isn’t catastrophic enough yet?
Would be a damn shame if the National Forestry service just started spiking all those trees.
Would be a shame if the millions of people who cherish our national forests, such as outdoors-people, survivalists, veterans and preppers, just decided that they don’t want their woods chopped down.
Sure would be a shame if anything kept happening to that expensive logging equipment over and over.
