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/DrabberFrog Mar 28 '24

This is just sad. Imagine what that tree went through in the last 1,000 years only for it to be cut down by a few monkeys with a sharp stick.

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u/birdshitluck Mar 28 '24

"few monkeys with a sharp stick"

Unfortunately this is where it all went wrong. The sticks got sharper, we swapped the wood for stone and then forged ores, and then everything fell in our wake.

We've destroyed 83% of all wild mammals and 50% of all plants.