Making paper out of trees is one of the dumbest things our species does. Paper can be made out of fast growing plants like hemp and bamboo, yet we’re making it out of the SLOWEST growing plants in existence? Make it make sense.

In the early days of the USA, wealthy land owners lobbied the government to make hemp illegal to grow because they knew that using the trees on their land was an inefficient way to make paper, but it made them money. Hemp was a threat, and so these greedy short-sighted capitalists made it illegal to grow.

Sweden should learn from our mistakes and grow hemp.

Meanwhile IKEA destroys the forests in other countries https://youtu.be/MdwLhmwRPt8

Humans build with wood - furniture, houses.

Big, old trees have “no value” in capitalism, because they can’t be processed in industrial mills into furniture or house material.

Solution is to cut them down, turn them into paper, and use the land to grow new trees (“See how environmentally friendly we are?”) which can be used for industrial purposes.

It happens wherever there’s old trees and no protection and it makes me so sad. They’ll never grow back. There’s too much pollution, even if we gave them the time.

I live in the middle of this happening. They are getting desperate, SCA (mainly) scrapes every little piece of forest left. When those fuckers finish, it’s just a demolished destroyed piece of land with pieces if trees sticking out, deep tracks from huge harvesting machines. I really wish the nature would have some effective way of protecting against us.

This bullshit makes me angry.