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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging (wapo.st)
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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.

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 85 points 2 weeks ago

Uhm, why can he just decide this? Not part of his expertise or departement.

[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Trump doesn't like that the US buys lumber from Canada. He's going to announce 34% tariffs on lumber from Canada in the next few days.

[-] stormdahl@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

In addition to the blanket tariffs already announced? Seriously I think that guy might be an evil alien supervillain or something. He seems to be doing his best to ruin the world in any way he can.

[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-hikes-softwood-lumber-duties-1.7503120

He's out to cripple Canada's economy, then he'll attempt to invade it. True evil.

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