America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

Re:America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era by ada1981 on Thursday April 10, 2025 @09:46AM (#43643728)

I mean, I don't understand how you could care about the environment and vote for Trump.

He's actively unwinding decades of environmental policy and protections, destaffing and defunding national parks, and opening up logging 100MM acres which will be gone in no time at all.

He's the kind of guy that says "we are going to have the cleanest air and water" and then literally does the opposite policy wise.

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Re:America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era by fallingknife on Thursday April 10, 2025 @09:56AM (#43643824)

Trees are a renewable resource. It won't be gone at all. Not only that, but the US is actually logging at a slower rate than trees are growing. We are currently gaining over 2000 square miles of forest every year.

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Re:America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era by ada1981 on Thursday April 10, 2025 @02:47PM (#43646948)

This is because we import most of our lumber, which is not going to happen any more.

We can wipe all of that out and then wait 20 years.

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