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Satellite image analysis shows 329 hectares of forest cleared during development of factory in Germany
The development of a Tesla gigafactory near Berlin has resulted in about 500,000 trees being felled, according to satellite analysis.
The building of the German factory has been highly controversial and attracted significant protests, as well as prompting a debate about the trade-offs involved in developing a green economy.
Elon Musk, Tesla’s owner, has criticised local police for letting off “leftwing protesters”.
Satellite images show 329 hectares (813 acres) of forest were cut down at the site between March 2020 and May 2023, according to the environmental intelligence company Kayrros. That is equivalent to approximately 500,000 trees.
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Like some dude said some time ago: elon is what happens when the spirit of a 6 year old and that of a 19th century robber baron possess the same body at once.
The fault is on Germany, not Tesla. We all know what Tesla wants to do: make money. The government has a responsibility to say “no, you cannot destroy 500,000 trees”
It was a tree farm, not a forest. Do with that information what you will.
If it was a tree farm, were the trees for wood, and harvested as usual, or did they go to waste? Couldn’t they have been relocated, since their root balls were probably all separate? It’s not the catastrophe of an ancient forest, but it’s still a negative.
Those trees were grown for the specific purpose of being cut down. I highly doubt they were just thrown away.
My assumption is that they identified an area ready for harvest, harvested them then started construction. It would be throwing away serval million euros to do otherwise.
That would be the sensible thing to do, but we are talking about Moist&Musky here, so we can’t assume.
My guess is that Mr. Elongated Muskrat didn’t own the land before so I would imagine the previous landowner harvested the trees before the construction/land purchase
My assumption is that they identified an area ready for harvest
I admire your ability to just believe. I really do.
It’s believable, because of greed, no rich guy is throwing free money away…
Tell me how much did he spend on Xitter again? Are you sure you know who we‘re dealing with?
He didn’t mean to actually buy Twitter, he fucked up because of his ego and couldn’t get out of it without getting sued to oblivion.
It is Germany, yes, but it’s not “not Tesla.”
Many companies manage to make money without destroying significant numbers of trees.
Just because something unethical is legal doesn’t mean that the person doing that thing escapes all criticism.
Criticize all of them.
Which is why tesla was legally obligated to plant as many trees somewhere else. And instead of a monoculture commercial forrest they planted a proper one that also will stay.
But only “musk bad” content sells on lemmy, so you’ll never learn that actually this gigafactory is totally fine. And yeah, it’s Europe, so shit is regulated and your regular USA corporate fascism simply doesn’t happen.
Show me Something that proves your claim that Tesla had to plant trees.
It never somehow made it to your shitty American media. So use some google translate or something: https://taz.de/Neuer-Tesla-Wald-in-Brandenburg/!5876234/
You can see they planted trees, they planted as a proper reforestation project, not as a monoculture that will be cut for paper forest that they destroyed, you can see that the quality of their new forest is being monitored.
This factory from a deforestation standpoint alone is a massive win. They get a shitty monoculture forest and they have to use their money to plant a proper one.
Because there are regulations in Europe.
But you’ll never hear anything about it cuz you live in your stupid American lemmy bubble with daily circle jerk wining about trump and musk.
Remind me to check it out in 15 years lol
Rage bait bullshit.
I hope he spends a lot of money on a gigafactory and then nobody applies for the jobs.
He has still some outstanding issues with strikes in both Germany and Sweden. I’m sure Volvo appreciates their home market.
This would be a good time for German unions to present an initiative.
I can’t believe this. Why didn’t Tesla just grow it like every other car factory?
EDIT: doing some napkin math for fun, in order to break even on CO2 impact they would need to cut down about 200 million trees to offset the CO2 savings from replacing 1 million petrol cars per year (the planned capacity of the factory).
Obviously not the only environmental consideration but it puts things in perspective a bit hopefully. It’s ok though you can keep hating Elon (I know I will), but this whole angle of talking about cutting down trees doesn’t make much sense to me.
yeah yeah, electric cars will save the enviroment i promise bro
Isnt that what we are doing everywhere, sacrificing Green for “green”?… sad. And unnecessary.
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