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Okay, you win, I guess I'm not woke.
"trees are living beings and a common human good, life on Earth depends on their existence"
Is it that radical?
Yes. Trees, like all plants, exist primarily to make human life easier and in that goal are required to die and their corpse be used for a variety of needs; some quite ephemeral, some quite permanent.
Without wood access, assuming you are correctly against plastics, you're essentially advocating for a world where poor people don't get furniture, barbecue is tasteless, and wildfires are common place.
Edit: I genuinely didn't expect liberals to take issue with this. It's wild how right-wing beliefs like humans being smol inconsequential beans have spread in that community.
Wow, did you not read the things you were typing while you were typing them..?
I thought the idea that the world was made by god to serve humans was known to not exactly be a fact, but apparently some people believe it still.
By the way, yes, quite obviously you are not "woke".
No one brought up God. Just not using your woo-woo 'oh the earth and the trees are living beings and we're all one' nonsense that helps no one.
They teach that in some churches though, that "everything on earth was put here for us by god".
We can trace every living thing on the planet's lineage back to a single common ancestor. We are quite literally one.
Nothing exists for humans. Fix yourself.
Wow, human exceptionalism is fucking gross.
Sorry you're a traitor to your species.
Sorry you're a traitor to every form of life except your own, lol.
the earth gave us a place to hold life. Not a traitor to my species, just humble enough to understand we are at the mercy of nature.
For example, without the trees we'd not have anything to burn when we found fire. Nor wood houses, nor yes, our furniture. But also no shade to keep us from the sun, no place for the birds and squirrels to nest. Trees give life for many outside our species too. In nature, all is connected.
It's graditute, respect, and understanding.
Ill edit this if I can find a link, but a national forest removed the wolves from its park. A time later, the trees started dying. Sceince found (and i forget so imma look it up,) somehow the missing wolves lead to the dead trees, so they reintroduced the wolves. I believe deer pop exploded and were eating the trees dead.
How wolves change rivers!
Are you at the mercy of the canned food in your kitchen? Are you at the mercy of the charge in your car's battery? Are you at the mercy of the clothes on your body?
youre a capitalist. All these points you make align with capitalism.
good work.
You're not capable of making that determination based on your post history.
Bunch of us in agreement here.
Keep up the fight, it’s a great example of how not to be for future generations.
aww, you peeked my profile :3
Trees don't exist "for" us. Animals don't exist "for" us. We are a cosmic accident. The fact that they make our lives easier in a great variety of ways is incidental.
Trees, like all plants, exist as a similar cosmic accident and their "purpose" is to continue their spread and growth.
I'm not going to stop using wood any time soon, but the way you're trying to paint humans as like, the one true species or some shit, is fucking gross
Trees exist for trees. Their purpose is to make more trees. Humans are not a consideration.
Their purpose is whatever purpose we have for them. We could eliminate them at any time on a whim.
You are looking at this as if the whole world was made for humans. You perhaps a creationist?
That is an incredibly colonialist capitalist attitude and it's exactly what got us into this ecological crisis.
You objectively do not know what either of those words mean.
Oh, sweetie. Honey.
You're one of those people that thinks there's a sky daddy aren't you?