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[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 9 points 10 months ago

That's bollocks. Humans have been clear-cutting land, burning fields and forests to enable agriculture, and hunting species to extinction since we came down from the trees, to say nothing of shitting in every body of water we lived near. The industrial revolution only made it tip the scales into an existential threat to our continued way of life.

[-] Madex@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah m8, you tell him wot

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Burning fields and forests is called back burning . It’s a practice that is saving the forest. If you don’t, the burning forests gets out of hand and all is lost. Just ask Australia circa 2019 when the PM refused to do the needed.

[-] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

That's a very different thing to clear cutting, it's like saying dumping toxic waste in your fish pond is the same as feeding them.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wasn’t responding to the clear cutting. I was responding to the burning. I don’t know what you’re on about but way to mangle a topic.

[-] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago

Ok let me explain in more detail, there is what you describe of back burning which exists in some places but there is also the widely practiced method of clear cutting which often involves burning down the forest to get rid of it and create farm land. Did you not see all the stories about deforestation in Brazil using this method?

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Yea, I said backburning. Glad we finally agreed what words mean now.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

TIL deforestation of the Amazon is good for the Amazon.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Calm down. you either clearly cannot understand the differences or refuse to understand the differences of back burning and deforestation. And until you do you should stop speaking on the subject of ‘what is good for the world’ cuz clearly you are doing it in a very bad actor/sensationalist way.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

burning fields and forests is called back burning

Not always. Sometimes it's deforestation. Most often throughout human history, it's been deforestation

You're talking nonsense man

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

I said backburning. I didn’t stutter.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

You don't have to stutter to be wrong.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nor argue the wrong argument and not have a clue what words mean.

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