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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Sure... What did trees to us anyway. Cut it all down in the name of profit!!!
These tree farms were planted to make a profit in the first place.
True sure. Still they are getting cut down in the name of profit (be it for the tree plantagee or Tesla)
But since they are to be cut down eventually nevertheless, them being cut down now for a construction site isn't as bad as the article makes it seem. Especially since Tesla was obliged to plant trees for an actual forest (i.e. diverse species) as compensation, which wouldn't have happened otherwise. So in the end, cutting down these trees even creates more forest than before.
These tree farm monocultures need to be replaced with more climate suitable and biodiverse mixed forests anyway. They’re dying all over the country because of droughts and Borkenkäfer bugs. Whole forests in the Harz mountains are gone.
Nothing of value was lost by cutting down this forest.