Another 7 activists arrested on Vancouver Island over old-growth logging blockades: "It's morally reprehensible to be logging 2000 year old cedar forests."

Ok, lets finally air this shit out. I've purchased old growth cedar. I purchased from a local mill, who logged the trees themselves.

First, not every tree is 2000 years old. Second, we're talking LOGGING, not CLEARCUTTING, there is a distinct difference. Third, some of these areas are prone to wildfires, which destroy the trees anyways, and in some cases of tree removal will create barriers to fire spreading. To anyone huffing and puffing over this last one, you clearly don't live in Vancouver- i remember our bogs burning and every city being in a yellow haze for weeks, and our entire north going up in flames every year because someone had a hot brake pad. You're sitting on wood right now, and i doubt you made your chair out of driftwood you pulled off the beach.

There is nothing wrong with sustainable logging at all- humans need and use wood all over the world. Are we being given any details as to what the logging plan was? Are they replanting? are these protected areas? No details whatsoever aside from blabbing that the trees are old. Methane pockets under lakes are old too- doesn't mean they're anyone's friend.

If ay of these dunces actually cared to do what they claim they do, they would be joining municipal councils and having these zones protected, or working to have permits revoked. Blockading roads and legit work does nothing beyond making the general populous hate them and not support their causes out of spite.

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