About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin
About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin
Satellite image analysis shows 329 hectares of forest cleared during development of factory in Germany
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If I remember correctly, there is a pine monoculture typical of Brandenburg. It's not a forest, it's a plantation that would have been harvested in a few years anyway. The ecological damage is therefore very limited.
It's weird that the article forgot to mention this little fact
Shoddy journalism.
These days I just lump all shoddy journalism and ragebait in with intentional, calculated, psychological warfare. Why give them the benefit of the doubt when they don't respect your energy or attention?
If serious, that is a cynicism verging on the pathological. How much did you pay for journalism this month? And yet you expect it to be professional and ethical and to "respect your attention".
They don't do it for those specific trees though. They do it because clearing trees and building a factory changes the region's water household:
“In one of the driest regions in Germany, too much of the environment has already been destroyed,” she said. “An expansion and thus even more destruction of forests and endangerment of the protected drinking water area must be prevented.”