I think there are all sorts of good arguments for greater environmental responsibility, but this is the kind of stupidity that harms us all. I'm not sure what the current status is, but it used to be that Maine contained some of the most sustainable large forest areas in the country, and that is partly owing to the policy of the lumber companies that own huge tracts of it, and maintain it as a renewable crop. We need forests and we need lumber too. The world is not perfect, but this seems like the last thing anyone should be attacking.
Back in the 1980's my former home town in Connecticut was hit by a terrible tornado. It devastated the mainly forested areas, including the famous "Cathedral Pines" of Cornwall, considered one of the most important old-growth forests in New England. The place was a mess. My mother, then owning about 10 acres of woods, lost thousands of trees. Needless to say, loggers came, not just to avail themselves of the unexpected resource, but to help clean the place up. Sure enough, "earth first" bozos came around and vandalized and spiked logs.
Our world is in a terrible state, and plenty ought to be done to make it better before we all burn, but it's not going to be solved by mush-brained idealists who don't know where lumber comes from and seem to have forgotten that there's no such thing as a wild cow. If they want to live in mud huts and eat wild groat cakes, let them, but they're barking up the wrong tree here.
I think there are all sorts of good arguments for greater environmental responsibility, but this is the kind of stupidity that harms us all. I'm not sure what the current status is, but it used to be that Maine contained some of the most sustainable large forest areas in the country, and that is partly owing to the policy of the lumber companies that own huge tracts of it, and maintain it as a renewable crop. We need forests and we need lumber too. The world is not perfect, but this seems like the last thing anyone should be attacking.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 1980's my former home town in Connecticut was hit by a terrible tornado. It devastated the mainly forested areas, including the famous "Cathedral Pines" of Cornwall, considered one of the most important old-growth forests in New England. The place was a mess. My mother, then owning about 10 acres of woods, lost thousands of trees. Needless to say, loggers came, not just to avail themselves of the unexpected resource, but to help clean the place up. Sure enough, "earth first" bozos came around and vandalized and spiked logs.
Our world is in a terrible state, and plenty ought to be done to make it better before we all burn, but it's not going to be solved by mush-brained idealists who don't know where lumber comes from and seem to have forgotten that there's no such thing as a wild cow. If they want to live in mud huts and eat wild groat cakes, let them, but they're barking up the wrong tree here.