About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
from filister@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2024 17:29
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lnxtx@feddit.nl on 22 Aug 2024 18:03 next collapse

Is it cheaper to cut down a forest than to buy a agriculture field?

Random123@fedia.io on 22 Aug 2024 18:15 next collapse

Probably since physical labor jobs is valued so cheap and thats not mentioning that immigrants are easily used for that kind of work for even cheaper

BlackLaZoR@fedia.io on 22 Aug 2024 18:23 next collapse

Depends. If you need specific location for logistic reasons, in the long run it might be

woelkchen@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2024 19:55 next collapse

Is it cheaper to cut down a forest than to buy a agriculture field?

That area was planted to be cut down. It was a monoculture for wood harvesting and the surrounding area still is, AFAIK. The only change to the original plan has been to not plant young trees again after cutting everything down and instead build a factory.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub on 22 Aug 2024 20:01 collapse

Effectively, they did buy an agriculture field.

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2024 18:15 next collapse

Wanna bet that gigafactory somehow gets closed down or cancelled before opening? Tesla might not even survive that long.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 22 Aug 2024 20:00 next collapse

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kamenlady@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2024 21:45 collapse

Your comment looks sexy on sync

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tamiya_tt02@lemmy.world on 23 Aug 2024 09:34 collapse

I’m on Sync for Android and mine doesn’t line up.

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kamenlady@lemmy.world on 23 Aug 2024 11:00 next collapse

I’m on Android 15 Beta, maybe this has an effect on the layout ?

VonReposti@feddit.dk on 24 Aug 2024 08:22 collapse

It lines up for me on Jerboa

B312@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 18:00 collapse

You guys can see profile pictures?

ludw@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2024 20:23 collapse

Unlikely as it opened in 2022…

[deleted] on 22 Aug 2024 18:19 next collapse

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AAA@feddit.org on 22 Aug 2024 18:44 next collapse

You are correct. It was a monoculture forest and designed to be cut down sooner or later anyway.

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 22 Aug 2024 18:47 next collapse

This is correct.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Aug 2024 15:57 collapse

Yeah, it was just naturally monoculture. And now it’s naturally concrete. Whats the big deal?!?! \s

[deleted] on 23 Aug 2024 16:13 collapse

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tabular@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2024 18:49 next collapse

When talking trade-offs you can’t just compare a combustion engine to an electric engine, you gotta consider electric public transport too. This has the bonus of pissing on Musk.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Aug 2024 15:59 collapse

Yes… And also light EVs. They’re hundreds of times more efficient and sustainable.

tabular@lemmy.world on 23 Aug 2024 19:59 collapse

I don’t go out much but if I did an ebike is the way to go, if it wasn’t raining.

yesman@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2024 19:04 next collapse

Mr. Musk, on a scale of 1-10, how tempted are you to build a bunker in Berlin?

MaggiWuerze@feddit.org on 22 Aug 2024 19:29 next collapse

The ‘forest’ cut down there is just a wood farm. There’s no ecosystem lost, since these farm are basically sterile

Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Aug 2024 12:26 next collapse

Trees are trees, they still have a huge impact on the environment.

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world on 23 Aug 2024 16:31 collapse

Trees are trees, but trees aren’t forests. And a trees don’t have nearly the ecological impact of forests. In fact, in the U.S. and around the world we have the problem of way too many trees, which is causing apocalyptic ecological damage, because they’re the wrong kind.

Cutting down all those trees in a tree farm isn’t hurting the environment very much for the same reason that randomly planting a bunch of trees for a tree farm doesn’t help the environment, which is why conservation is so important.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Aug 2024 15:56 collapse

There’s no ecosystem lost, since these farm are basically sterile

Wow. All star naturalist here.

MaggiWuerze@feddit.org on 23 Aug 2024 20:46 collapse

As @Encrypt-Keeper put it so well:

Trees are trees, but trees aren’t forests.

Forests are what’s actually worth prtotecting. This is not different from a field of corn. There is no ecological value to a farm of pine trees. If you ever walked in one, you would know that.

Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world on 22 Aug 2024 20:03 next collapse

Germany wanted this. They courted and kissed Elon’s ass for this. For all their pr, I’ve learned that Germans aren’t as progressive and smart as they would like the rest of us to think

lemmyvore@feddit.nl on 22 Aug 2024 22:17 collapse

Where’d you hear Germans are progressive? 😄

holgersson@lemm.ee on 23 Aug 2024 13:46 collapse

Compared to (parts of) the US, we might aswell be.

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 22 Aug 2024 20:42 next collapse

What? They just let them cut down trees to build things!? Bastards!

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 22 Aug 2024 21:39 next collapse

I’m gonna go ahead and guess cyber truck 2 is going to be made of wood.

user224@lemmy.sdf.org on 22 Aug 2024 23:11 next collapse

CyberTruck X(ylem).

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world on 23 Aug 2024 15:54 collapse

The wooden Cyber Truck is already a thing. Relevant video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUp1KHIfme0

charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works on 23 Aug 2024 02:51 next collapse

Can’t we just find some kind of space vehicle to put Musk in and fling it at Mars? He always wanted to go there I’ve heard.

BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world on 23 Aug 2024 03:09 collapse

Bet if we bury him in a spacesuit and a chrome coffin he wouldn’t know the difference.

Wanderer@lemm.ee on 23 Aug 2024 05:01 next collapse

Elon hate porn.

Jesus Christ guys. Elon lives in your head rent free.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 23 Aug 2024 08:03 next collapse

Trees planted there to farm wood. It’s a wood farm, not a natural forest. Get over it already.

Plopp@lemmy.world on 23 Aug 2024 09:06 collapse

With that logic we could cut down pretty much every single forest in Sweden and tell people to stop crying about it.

Edit: Why the down votes? We pretty much have no natural forests left in Sweden. It’s basically all mono cultures planted with the intent to be cut down and sold. But if that’s the only forests you have they’re still very valuable (as forests I mean).

holgersson@lemm.ee on 23 Aug 2024 13:43 collapse

Why the downvotes

I for my part downvoted because it’s just false equivalence. Cutting down a part of a commercial forest is pretty far from completely cutting “every single forest” in Sweden.

Is it great that trees were cut down without replanting? No.

Is there a perfectly cleared and infrastructurally connected plot of land in Brandenburg that Tesla could have used instead? Also no.

Your comparison was basically the same as “We sell a plot of land to Elon? Why not just sell every plot of land to him then!”.

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Aug 2024 15:54 next collapse

The point is not that sweden is selling every inch of land to elon.

The point is that every forest in sweden is “commercial forest” so that’s a meaningless justification.

sunbeam60@lemmy.one on 23 Aug 2024 17:43 collapse

Ok, but take a step back. You’re now using the lack of original forest in Sweden to somehow argue against commercial forest in Germany being chopped down to make way for construction.

Plopp@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2024 08:09 collapse

Ah I see the problem then. I wasn’t trying to equate anything. I was simply addressing the reasoning behind the statement (that non-natural forests don’t matter), taking it to the extreme to make point. I don’t know anything about the forest in question, and I wasn’t talking about it.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Aug 2024 10:17 next collapse

tesla and elon have never been about being eco friendly or environmentally conscious

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Aug 2024 15:53 next collapse

Electric cars are here to save the oil and auto industries, not the planet or humanity.

UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works on 23 Aug 2024 18:43 next collapse

Currently yeah, but why can’t we see electric cars as the step towards getting rid of oil? More electric cars will make more and more people want cleaner energy. Where eventually the fuel to run the cars comes from fully renewable sources.

derpgon@programming.dev on 23 Aug 2024 18:55 collapse

I’d rather not have a Tesla even if it meant I dont have an EV ever. Crappy overpriced cars.

sunbeam60@lemmy.one on 23 Aug 2024 16:51 collapse

The number of trees is Europe is growing quickly. In fact, terribly so, this is an official part of the carbon mitigation strategy of many western democracies.

You can be angry about a lot of things but unless this is some ancient yewtree wood, this is honestly a nothing-burger.

feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 2024 08:15 collapse

soggy biscuit