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oolong wrote

i don't disagree! i read the 'wood as not sustainable building material' article posted here only recently and there are more factors at play than i previously thought

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Moonside wrote

Yeah. I feel that plenty of progressives neglect the role of the state and international institutions that aren't multinational corporations in environmental predicament. In a sense this is a conservative reform, but merely stopping subsidies (except those funding restoration work) for forestry would be a clear improvement since it would remove marginal forestland from production, that is, no-one will bother maintaining roads for logging access. It would also decrease clear cutting since a lot of the labor tasks only useful for clear cutting are presently subsidized by governments. Now a near total ban on clear cutting would be pretty awesome, all things considered, but a lot of trouble has to do with what public sector enthusiastically encourages rather than merely fails to curtail in the private sector. This doubly so when public bodies own natural resources, like oil and forests.

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oolong wrote

i don't remember if this article was posted here but i feel like it intersects well on how the public sector subsidises energy projects without further thought into impact