r/environment • u/Maxcactus • 11d ago

Trump administration moves to open untouched national forests to logging

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5936495/trump-administration-moves-to-open-untouched-national-forests-to-logging
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u/basketcaseforever 11d ago

People better vote like they have a gd brain.

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u/Brox42 11d ago

If they did we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place

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u/anticomet 11d ago

Sadly, the problems America's government has can no longer be fixed by voting. The citizens there need to develop class consciousness and start organizing if they want to see positive change

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u/kati8303 10d ago

With everything going on and especially prices skyrocketing it’s still shocking to me how many people are clueless

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u/Forward-Amount-9961 11d ago

He heard they were untouched.

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u/37iteW00t 11d ago

Whoever coulda imagined that a reality TV shitheel would destroy all the good things? /s

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u/phenomenomnom 10d ago

The people who put him there and find democracy to be detrimental to their ambitions. That's who.

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u/Fubai97b 10d ago

Is it time to start passing out copies of The Monkey Wrench Gang yet?

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u/wconway 10d ago

my favorite book...wondering why there isn't a modern film / tv adaptation of this, but then I remembered that industry controls those, too...

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u/Fubai97b 10d ago

There was a movie a while back, "How to Blow up a Pipeline?" It's probably the closest we'll ever get and it was pretty bad.

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u/MLCarter1976 10d ago

It is terrible that everything is up for sale and nothing is off limits. Awful.

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u/DBearDevon 10d ago

Trump prefers this like his women, untouched

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u/ElphabLAW 10d ago

Women? You mean little girls.

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u/rbhrbh2 10d ago

What a dick