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Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn’t going to do that.
America is a dumpster fire lol, they have all these “checks and balances” but then one guy can just make all the trade policy and land use decisions by decree. What even is the point of their congress
The problem is that Congress is controlled by people who are Trump sycophants — the Republican Party kicked out everybody who wasn’t.
All governments at some level run on the honor system. When the whole government colludes to not honor the system, you get this.
Problem is that both houses majorities support the lunatic, right now they’ve more or less given him a blank check to operate.
Historically, the two party system has meant that Congress either votes with the presidents wishes or against when it comes to legislation, but Congress doesn’t directly approve/disprove of executive orders. To oppose executive orders, Congress needs to pass laws that override the orders. That wont happen unless the majority becomes convinced they’ll lose elections if they keep supporting trump.
It’ll be up to the Judicial Branch to directly rule for/against this order. But the judicial branch only truly has power so long as the executive complies. We’re close to hitting the test of that power balance on some of his earlier orders.
Fun fact: the law enforcement of the Judicial Branch is technically an agency under the Executive Branch. Not a problem if people are largely operating in good faith with the law, or at least fear repurcussions if they don’t comply… But since Trump doesn’t fear repurcussion, this fun fact may be the oversight that breaks the consitution.
Checks and balances all died with citizens united….only one left is the second amendment
The 2nd amendment is part of the Bill of rights which he already trampled multiple times. There is no right to bear arms anymore, they just haven’t had a reason to round anyone who uses them up yet.
There isn’t much purpose for congress anymore. Biden was doing the same thing. I think we should just do away with presidents, only have the House and the Senate. If nothing else, stop allowing the presidents to use executive orders. They really aren’t legal the way they are used.
Any solution that stops short of essentially a factory reset (really should go further tbh) is going to land us here again
There is a lot wrong, that’s for sure.
Holy shit, America, you are so fucked at this point.
It only the damage was contained within the USA’s borders.
My body is not ready for the amount of alcohol and dancing I am going to force myself to take part in on the day this motherfucker dies and goes to hell.
Literally, the most destructive and evil human on the planet since Hitler. I can’t wait until the worms get him. I kind of feel bad for them, but I guess it’s part of the job.
That scene in the matrix 2
Finally, a good move by Trump. Those trees are taking up incredible amounts of water. This is water that could be used for more productive things, like being mixed with Kool-aid powder on a hot day. Moreover, the trees emit large amounts of oxygen, a dangerous corrosive gas. Don’t listen to liberals – tree hugging is a dangerous activity that can lead to abrasions from all the bark.
If there’s anything I learned from Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax”, logging can lead to impressive industrial and commercial activity and has no downsides.
It’s insane that I’m 99% sure this is sarcasm, but that 1% has a voice telling me I can’t discount Maga being that stupid. This is the age we live in, incredible stupidity.
My first thought. Seems appropriate.Just fyi, I’m pointing out Trump’s similarities to an evil villain. I’m not using this to agree. I’m very much against this, having grown up in the woods (practically raised by my local forest, as my mother was an awful drunk and single parent) and I spent most of my youth walking through the peace and quiet of the trees.
I grew up with my mother seeing nothing but my father in me, and was abused for it. Those trees gave me the shelter I needed and I would have been 100x more a mess if I didn’t have them. So no. Don’t take my fucking trees en masse.
The absolute level of stupidity of this is ridiculous. Lumber mills are not designed for old growth trees in the modern era, so all these trees will not even become lumber. Logging has become very sustainable in recent decades. They farm trees and mill them when they reach the size that the machinery at the mills is optimized for. If we just cut down all the forests, the mills can’t even process the logs even though it’s better lumber. In reality, they’d just send the old growth logs to be ground for pulp which is a total waste. This video does a good job explaining it.
I think Trump is clearing land for the techno-fiefs that Project 2025 wants to create among the head fascists. He hands out land parcels, gets a reacharound from Thiel and company.
Heil Praxis
Ugh I hate that they used that word
Fucking murder this fuck
I got a mod deletion the last time I said anything like this. Good luck and I fucking agree.
Fortunately this community is on slrpnk.net which might not have the same kinds of trigger happy mods as .world?
You’ve got to be careful how you word it lest the gestapo come for you. I will derive pleasure from reading his obituary though.
I will also say that 18 U.S. Code § 2381 says that he should be well, you know. Or fined and put in jail for five years but that’s not as fun.
I predict that any company that participates in destroying the parks will end up even worse off then Tesla. I’ve been a hiker my whole life and I’ve met a lot of retired military on the trail.
One would hope, though I have my doubts due to the wood not being a consumer product. People spend little time researching the next president, I would be surprised if enough people track wood sources to the point of being able to accurately boycott
They ain’t talking about boycotts son.
That is just… Insane. Incredibly sad.
March '23 Trump gave a soundbite for his billionaire bosses about building “Freedom Cities.” Clear-cutting national forests, then signing an order that makes the area exempt from regulation? Sounds about right.
If they’re coming for all federally governed land, indigenous reservations will be on the menu as well (always are).
A hundred years from now the planet will be in a pretty good shape, forests have been regrown and the seas will have been cleaned up and repopulated with fish, except for the US which is a giant hole. Not from bombs exploding, but from strip-mining the whole place for resources.
Gee, why wouldn’t I want to cede my country to American management and become the 51st state? You guys are knocking it out of the park, no pun intended.
Already bad enough here in Ontario with Doug “I’m a big Republican” Ford’s Ministerial Zoning Order addiction, gutting environmental protection agencies, trying to sell off the Greenbelt, using covid recovery bills to get his dirt done, etc.
Any rein we’ve been able to keep on the timbit would dissolve into nada if we allowed the US govt to run their game here. I can’t even conceive of much worse they’d make the tar sands in Alberta. 90% of the fisheries would just be trawlers digging up seabeds. Plus the dizzying amount of toxic waste they’re already legally dumping here and in Mexico?
Elbows up.
The USA will resemble Russia, China and Mordor.
In the past decade, China has regrown more than 70 million hectares of forest cover. The country has benefited greatly from solutions in biodiversity conservation, sustainable usage and climate governance, resulting in wetland and forest restoration that also combats desertification. (link to a WEF article on China’s reforestation efforts)
… it has made “remarkable strides” in tackling the issue, said Xinhua, beginning in 1978 with the launch of the “Great Green Wall of China”. Expected to continue until 2050, the “biggest tree-planting project in human history” will ultimately have created “88 million acres of forests in a wall stretching about 3,000 miles and as wide as 900 miles in some places”, (article from The Week regarding anti-desertification efforts)
In November 2024, China’s government reported that after 46 years of work it had finished the 3,000-kilometer green belt around the Taklamakan Desert. The country’s forest coverage grew from 10% of the overall territory in 1949 to 25% in 2024 (this one’s a link to the Wikipedia page for the Great Green Wall initiative, if you’re interested)
Where’s an entmoot when you need one?
🙏🏼✝️🔯☯️🕉️ Gods of the universe that ever existed real or fictional Please hear our prayers and please peacefully take this man home. His destruction is too much for the good people of earth to bear. Please consider taking Putin and Netanyahu too Than You. Amen
God here (taking temporary control of a random human as I don’t have a mobile device, or thumbs for that matter): I gave y’all free choice - and I’m not talkin’ 'bout the vote. Turn off the telly and go start a revolution! (or join an existing rebellion, if you prefer) All my love, God(s)
I’m agnostic but I had to try.
Vance would arguably be worse.
He doesn’t have the cult backing. I honestly think the cult would fracture
