Scottish government axes 16 million trees
to clear the way for ‘greener’ solutions
American Thinker,
by
Olivia Murray
Original Article
Posted By: mean Gene,
8/6/2023 2:37:06 PM
Stupidity is increasingly state-sanctioned.
Since 2000, the Scottish government has felled around 1,700 trees on a daily basis, all to make way for “green” initiatives. Leave it to the government and their leftist abettors to harp on the “destruction of the environment” then chop down literal trees to create barren wastelands—all to make room for obtrusive, industrial, inanimate behemoths that obliterate all sorts of animal populations, and create massive amounts of environmental pollution (in production, maintenance, and disposal).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/6/2023 2:41:56 PM (No. 1528880)
I sure will be glad when enough people start to realize that this green crap just won't cut the mustard.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 8/6/2023 2:51:56 PM (No. 1528891)
#1 And that's just what it is, crap, and along with it's partner, man caused climate change, the biggest scam going
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/6/2023 2:52:25 PM (No. 1528892)
My last golf trip to Scotland was ten years ago but even then those damned alien-looking turbines seemed to be everywhere. If they were actually cost effective and beneficial, the costs might be worth it but they are not. Just an expensive and useless way to destroy a beautiful landscape.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 8/6/2023 3:06:29 PM (No. 1528907)
Scotland is the stupider part of the island they somewhat coexist on with the English, and I say that as a person with a fair amount of that ancestry. I will never understand marring beautiful natural land or coastline with hideous wind turbines but hey, our NE is all over it too.
We saw a ton of turbines on the flat plains outside Paris, France. Ugly sight but that is not a very pretty part of France anyway and mostly farmland, France is the major food producer in Europe barring the European parts of Russia. But they do still have nuclear power plants for the better part of their power in France too, at least for now. I wish we had followed their lead 40 years ago and built nuclear power plants hither thither and yon and logically disposed of the limited waste they produce when you do the job right. That would have kept our nation rolling indefinitely.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/6/2023 3:08:57 PM (No. 1528908)
Killing trees INCREASES CO2! Perhaps they should have consulted a high school science student.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 8/6/2023 3:33:49 PM (No. 1528917)
Millions of tons of CO2 would be absorbed annually by those trees. So they DESTROY massive natural CO2 utilization capacity while whining about "too much CO2".
Cannot have it both ways, you idiots. And windmills are a sad, ugly, miserable, expensive and unreliable source of intermittent power.....for a decade or so, and then they are worn out and need to be junked - and who pays for THAT massive cost? And where do the non-recyclable massive blades wind up?
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Well, the Scots also put together a goat's lung and a wood whistle and call it "music". But I'm not one to judge.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/6/2023 3:51:18 PM (No. 1528932)
In the US, the South is portrayed as low class and stupid. Just the opposite in the UK, the farther north, the worse it gets. Ironic with so many genius Scots through the centuries.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/6/2023 4:05:23 PM (No. 1528937)
Green energy 'saving the planet' initiatives should never be in the same category as environmentalism. They are two different things.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Delilah 8/6/2023 4:31:53 PM (No. 1528961)
I love trees and have planted 9 of them on a medium size lot. I don't travel much anymore so don't have to see those depressingly huge windmills or solar panels which are a blight on the face of the earth.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 8/6/2023 4:42:22 PM (No. 1528968)
Oh my gosh. This is horrifyingly stupid. They have begun the desertification of this rocky isle.
Flora AND fauna will suffer immediately. No birds, more noxious insects, fewer beneficial ones, no pollination. I'm not a botanist or an etymologist, but I've observed enough in my own yard and where I grew up on Cape Cod to know the beauty of trees and their usefulness for life.
For years, the early colonial settlers were blamed for deforestation of New England and beyond. People had at least the good sense to replant trees and plants.
This is baffling. Did the Scottish people agree to this? Why am I surprised. A brain-devouring disease is spreading around the world, begun in institutions of "higher learning" and accelerated from there, through the children who physically mature, but intellectually are stunted. It tends to destroy the ratiocination ability of the brain.
All I can say is, these people are fools, arrogant, stupid fools.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/6/2023 5:08:53 PM (No. 1528978)
Green maniacs cutting down forests to make the planet greener. The irony is not lost. Plant more trees to eliminate CO2 gasses dudes. It's not rocket science.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 8/6/2023 5:24:23 PM (No. 1528987)
I know how they feel.
The hills to the south of my property have been denuded by the U.S. 'Forest Service': the head of this USFS district considers trees to be an "invasive species" and wants them replaced by "Native grasses and cactus".
So, this spring and summer they have been cutting down tens of thousands of trees, leaving the hills naked, hot and ugly, with huge piles of drying brush to become an incredible fire hazard. (The larger pieces of wood have been hauled off to be sold for firewood).
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
czechlist 8/6/2023 6:11:15 PM (No. 1529021)
these same people will condemn the SAmerican poor for burning Amazon jungles to survive. climate stupidity is rampant on the planet -
someone once writ: I TRIED TO FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, BUT IT WAS SIMPLY NOT THERE. I THEN FOLLOWED THE MONEY, THAT'S WHERE I FOUND THE SCIENCE.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 8/6/2023 7:11:08 PM (No. 1529046)
Re #13, just curious. What state is that in? Typically trees are a boon, cooling an area, providing shade, lowering the loss of water to runoff.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
paral04 8/6/2023 7:33:35 PM (No. 1529059)
Maybe they need to take a Biology Class and find out where Oxygen comes from during the day.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 8/6/2023 7:37:51 PM (No. 1529063)
I recall a Monte Python skit featuring the “Kamikaze Scotsman” in kilt and bonnet, striding off to certain death. Apparently it was true.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/6/2023 8:29:16 PM (No. 1529079)
Trees don't kill wildlife; wind turbines, do.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ruthless 8/6/2023 8:58:10 PM (No. 1529088)
Only over-educated (Read: STUPID) liberals could possibly dream up a scheme this destructive.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TXknitter 8/6/2023 10:56:04 PM (No. 1529144)
Oh #13, that is horribly stupid but the US Forest Service messed up a good bit of the Pacific Northwest too. So many stands of old stately trees dying now on the N Oregon coast where we once lived for a time. Forest mismanagement there is legend. I can’t imagine your upset having to look at that devastation!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
pixelero 8/6/2023 11:23:09 PM (No. 1529153)
They’re idiots. Like the authors of the Canadian and California wildfires. Native Americans had better sense 300 years ago. Imbecile Progressives.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NotaBene 8/7/2023 3:26:01 AM (No. 1529204)
CO2 is fertilizer, and Global Warming NWO is a European hoax to keep America down. We better re-elect President Trump a third time.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/7/2023 3:58:20 AM (No. 1529220)
Being green actually means you're brain addled and in serious need of therapy.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
coldborezero 8/7/2023 5:40:27 AM (No. 1529238)
CO2 is not a pollutant.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/7/2023 6:03:07 AM (No. 1529245)
The ONLY good thing to come out of Scotland was in a wooden barrel and very probably 80 proof.
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All those trees what inhale CO2 and exhale O2 replaced by wind turbines that do nothing.