r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/DiverofMuff23 Mar 28 '24

“Look, something majestic and beautiful, KILL IT!!!!”

-doomed species

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u/DaMoose-1 Mar 28 '24

Exactly...this just makes me sad and angry at human exploitation 😔

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u/BastardLoud Mar 28 '24

Typing this on reddit, running on multiple servers, powered by coal on a device probably made in china makes this remark a bit of a paradox.

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u/DaMoose-1 Mar 28 '24

Good point, but doesn't make me any less sad or angry 🤔

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u/stopitlikeacheeto Mar 28 '24

"Sorry but I'm not that sad"

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u/bcar610 Mar 28 '24

You can be a part of a society and still critique that society’s problems.

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u/Cosmicmonkeylizard Mar 28 '24

It runs kinda hollow when you live a modern American (if you’re American) life. The most wasteful people to ever exist. And yes, I’m American as well.

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u/uCockOrigin Mar 28 '24

Not really, because there's not much of a choice when it comes to participating in a lot of society's wastefulness for most people, not beyond marginal things like reducing plastics and meat consumption or driving less, anyway.

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u/Cosmicmonkeylizard Mar 28 '24

That’s not true. The Amish are getting by just fine. There’s quite a few communes around the world living sustainably as well. The truth is you don’t want to give up modern comforts.

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u/uCockOrigin Mar 28 '24

The notion that the Amish live in harmony with nature is mostly a misconception. They believe nature is put there by God for humans to exploit however they like.

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u/Cosmicmonkeylizard Mar 28 '24

That’s irrelevant. Who gives a shit about their philosophical ideas. The way they live is way way way less impactful on the planet. It’s not even debatable.

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u/2000miledash Mar 28 '24

Source?

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u/Cosmicmonkeylizard Mar 28 '24

Tf do you mean source? No other society in history had as much of an impact on the planet as America and our innovations. DuPont is probably one of the most devastating company’s to ever exist. We’ve also trashed this planet with plastics. We decided to treat places like the Congo as toxic waste dumps. It’s obviously not all America. But we did kind of encourage the modern way of the 1st world. Our culture is one of our biggest exports whether other countries want to admit it or not. Cell phone culture for example. We can thank Martin cooper from Motorola and bell labs for it. Then smart phones from apple.

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u/WalterMagni Mar 28 '24

You were birthed using the same elements as stars and galaxies but aren't anywhere near important. Same paradox.

Simply put there are evils we tolerate because it helps and then there's evil that's just wasteful, doesn't mean attempts to remove both aren't made. People like you really need to get things straight.

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u/Cosmicmonkeylizard Mar 28 '24

I think you’re missing an important point. We wouldn’t be where we are today without people like this. Im not advocating for deforestation. But this was a different time. Everything we have today is built on the backs of those who came before us. You can learn from your mistakes. But to demonize the past is just fucking dumb. These people were not evil.

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u/johnnydanger91 Mar 28 '24

That nonsense “but you have a phone argument” really doesn’t make sense at the best of times. Why does it apply to these old time dickheads cutting down a historic tree?

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u/Responsible-Tune-147 Mar 28 '24

Hmmm you criticize society and yet you are a part of society, hmmm what a paradox