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[tvguy]

Why is it hard for people to realize, we can damage the environment.

The problem with CO2, is we can't see it.

 
Actually clear cuts are not always such a bad thing. The coastal pacific northwest clear cuts grow back extremely fast.

One of the reasons Britain was so anxious to colonize North America was for it's resources. England used to be thickly forested but is no longer simply because it's people over exploited it's resources. We don't think of England as a land of thick forests.  They looked to America as a land of limitless resources.  As are the South American Rainforest.  My point is about natural resources, not politics.  All resources need to be managed wisely and with foresight.

I hear you and I agree that all resources need to be managed wisely and with foresight. That sometimes clear cutting which is very often used as an example of bad forestry methods can be a proper way to manage a forest.

As far as England and parts of Europe being stripped of it's trees I read somewhere that most of it was done for firewood.