okay I live in a rural area, and I am an avid hunter. I can tell you that in the USA the states that allow the loggers to come in and clear the dead trees and brush don't experience wild fires like california does every fucking year. I can also tell you that I do more to clean and protect this environment than possibly anyone else in this discord. In fact I would wager that I do more than the rest of the discord combine.

Via either donations, or just by picking up trash on the roadside every day on my morning jog, by hunting and buying up large sums of land

I own over 400 square miles of land in Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota. Those 400 sq miles are dedicated to wet land protection and to protecting the wild life. I an currently trying to Amass a large enough area to make a private national park that will be for WILD bison.

you relize claifonia has also expierence the record absence of humidity for the past ten years rright

Yeah, but they also don't do any forest management or preventative maintenance of any kind.

@chaz you realize that California still doesn't allow anyone to come in and clear the brush and dead foliage at all right?

Not to mention they're giving a ton of money to illegal immigrants instead of, oh I don't know, buying more fire fighting equipment, or actually taking care of the environment past the whole "carbon neutral" BS

no, no i did not, but i dont think that is the sole reason for the fires

Not the sole reason, but it's a gigantic one.

> no, no i did not, but i dont think that is the sole reason for the fires
@chaz but it is the single largest contributor. in Ireland they have the same issue that California does with dry land areas and forest TREES that are far easier to start on fire, BUT they don't experience fucking wild fires that burn millions of acres every year.

Trees are good they store carbon and give us oxygen. We should preserve them and not burn them, releasing their stored carbon into the air

because they actually do something towards forest management, and drag the dead stuff out every fucking year.

Asian countries don't have massive fires like California, and bamboo burns like crazy. They actually manage the forests though.

If you wanna see what failed management in an area like that looks like look at the recent fire that destroyed half of Australia. It was due to arson, but it was mostly because they'd slacked off the off-season burnings for a couple of years so the brush built up.

@yeti_steamroller how many trees must any logging company in the USA plant for every 1 tree they cut down for any purpose?

Lack of controlled burns have also made ticks super annoying

I had heard of the legends of never trump Republicans but I thought they were fake

My father

Is not voting for trump

They also don't cut down the trees that are basically over hanging power lines, so when the wind picks up, trees come down, take down the power lines, and start a fire.

> @yeti_steamroller how many trees must any logging company in the USA plant for every 1 tree they cut down for any purpose?
@Knotty Not sure but I know you’re going to tell me. But baby trees don’t do the work of the big ones they cut down for centuries before

if anyone can answer the question above of: How many trees must all logging companies in the USA plant to replace every 1 tree cut down for any purpose I will be impressed.

5 million

well @yeti_steamroller then answer is they must plant 10 trees per 1 tree cut down.

that is the legal amount, BUT most plant near 15-20 per 1 tree cut down

Tell me how the IRS taxes dividends a US corporation received from its wholly owned subsidiaries, which were duly taxed in the country where such profits were earned. Just cuz we are showing off little known facts

hell brother I am starting a logging company to deal with the forest management if I can pluck up the 200sq miles of land from the 3 guys I am currently bidding on in Montana.

If this is just a flex competition, might I suggest taking it to DMs?

@yeti_steamroller isn't that the tax law that made Amazon not have to pay taxes on their $2b in profits?

in 2018 or 2019?

Money is expensive man. Damn

The tax code of 1986. It’s what drove multi national corporations to take their HQ elsewhere - along with the taxable income and jobs

we were talking about carbon emissions and the environment. it wasn't a thing on taxes in the slightest.

Any hew

Also good morning

I believe that Climate Change IS real and is man made, but I do not support combating it because it's honestly impossible to combat

There used to be huge trees in Louisiana. Possibly a thousand years old. They are all gone. Saplings won’t do the same work.

also the USA's own carbon emissions went down from 2018 to 2019 by nearly 10%, and are set to drop by 20% this year but that is due to covid. I do however see a lot of that 20% staying because of the changes to the office atmosphere of most companies.

Wait. How do explain climate change during the dinosaurs then? @BrightPopz

Climate Change, just like Global Warming, are naturally occurring, cyclical cycles who's quantifying has been hijacked by Leftist lunatics.

Can’t fix the past. Can only make the best decision in the present. Regardless of human impact on the climate having a small footprint on the earth is something most could agree on.

That was nature. The thing is, yes we are coming out of an ice age, but the temperature increases we are seeing now are concluded to be unnatural and way too fast