Satellite image analysis shows 329 hectares of forest cleared during development of factory in Germany
  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Meh, it’s a monocultural wood farm not some kind of untouched nature reserve. Tesla also has to replant trees in a different location. Lots of legitimate things to criticize about Tesla, but this is barely worth mentioning.

  • KasimirDD@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    If I remember correctly, there is a pine monoculture typical of Brandenburg. It’s not a forest, it’s a plantation that would have been harvested in a few years anyway. The ecological damage is therefore very limited.

    • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      They don’t do it for those specific trees though. They do it because clearing trees and building a factory changes the region’s water household:

      “In one of the driest regions in Germany, too much of the environment has already been destroyed,” she said. “An expansion and thus even more destruction of forests and endangerment of the protected drinking water area must be prevented.”