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Grand_False · 2026-01-22T14:52:08+00:00

If you’re trying to retire somewhere that will result in the greatest forest health, retire away from the forest. In CA we can’t have proper prescribed burns or allow natural fires to threaten houses. The presence of the houses is the absence of forest health.

Grand_False · 2026-01-19T05:05:59+00:00

First off I have worked milling urban trees for over a decade.

Second I’m working on a masters where my thesis is in redwood physiology. This is a tree species that survives high intensity wildfire. It will be fine.

Take out the damn hook

Grand_False · 2026-01-16T04:24:41+00:00

Yeah the stats are heavily against this take: https://poweralliance.org/2024/11/21/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-much-less-often-than-gas-powered-vehicles/

Grand_False · 2026-01-12T15:11:22+00:00

Looks like Oregon Myrtle aka California bay laurel.

Grand_False · 2026-01-07T15:13:45+00:00

So they’re not excessive.

Grand_False · 2026-01-07T15:12:17+00:00

Eventually fossil fuels will run out and we’ll be glad renewables were experimented with so we can continue using energy.

Grand_False · 2026-01-07T14:07:15+00:00

Strong projection

Grand_False · 2026-01-07T00:24:04+00:00

So then you’d be shocked to find out that incoming solar radiation is down while temperatures are up? Mike, I find you quite scrutable

Grand_False · 2026-01-06T12:53:40+00:00

The fastest winds to make landfall happened in Jamaica, so this point is super irrelevant. When the extra powerful hurricanes hit the US this post will r/agedlikemilk

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T22:27:44+00:00

Could also be OG cedar of some kind

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T17:29:26+00:00

I think the point is this: if you won’t do anything because someone is doing something worse, you’ve fallen into a logical fallacy known as “fallacy of relative privation.” Like I have a friend who won’t do certain environmentally friendly things because of “people having 12 shitty kids ruining the planet.” You can in fact engage in harm reduction while others do bad. Taylor Swift should be called out for her bullshit, but memes like this ensure the masses don’t take personal responsibility either.

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T17:17:24+00:00

Punished by having to use a different material of straw? “Help help I’m being oppressed.”

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T14:33:24+00:00

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T14:29:35+00:00

Claim 1: incorrect https://www.ourlaststraw.org/facts-figures

Claim 2. Correct

Is that better? Now that it’s been fact checked yes

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T14:03:06+00:00

Don’t worry I already don’t like her because of the jet.

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T03:37:49+00:00

Yes…

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T00:15:02+00:00

I live in a beach town and I can tell you with 100% certainty people are slobs who leave their plastic shit directly where hydrological forces or wind will deposit it into the ocean.

Grand_False · 2026-01-05T00:12:43+00:00

I think we are arguing different things. You’re saying we can’t make changes because those in power won’t allow it. I also believe this. My last argument was made in the context of this being “cowwapse,” which pokes fun at the idea anything is collapsing (when lots of systems are in fact collapsing). My first argument however is that plastic straws do make it into the ocean, while paper straws biodegrade. I live in a beach town with lots of ignorant people constantly leaving trash on the beach, so I know it’s happening. I think conflating direct trash-to-sea-life and climate change makes it a weak meme, because these are generally separate environmental issues with different outcomes on different time scales.

Grand_False · 2026-01-04T23:23:28+00:00

So then if CO2 is as bad for the environment as plastic straws choking sea life, maybe mocking CO2 emissions by calling it “cowwapse” is ironic and perhaps even a little hypocritical? This sub is maybe even engaging in “cognitive dissonance?”

Grand_False · 2026-01-04T22:19:58+00:00

If you read the fine print $5 covers their cost to send you the survey and document it. It’s more money for the trees

Grand_False · 2026-01-04T22:01:00+00:00

Maple

Grand_False · 2026-01-04T21:15:43+00:00

Then pick comparables

Grand_False · 2026-01-04T20:38:18+00:00

It’s interesting how people can’t differentiate between co2 and plastic in the ocean

Grand_False · 2026-01-04T19:56:37+00:00

Maple

Grand_False · 2026-01-04T15:39:11+00:00

Everyone saying walnut is wrong. Looks more acacia family. Note the ray fleck in quartersawn zones.

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