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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Trees arent liquid

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Insert random copypasta about biotech breakthrough that turns water and CO2 and nutrients into sustainable building materials which sounds like space age technology but it's just trees

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Green shit on your terrace, leaves fucking everywhere, looming threat of bird shit on your head, seeds everywhere, roots growing through everything, blocking the sun at every step, tough lessons in gravity for things kids climbing them, lot of damage when it's stormy out.

But nah trees are great, really.

Edit: apparently I need to clarify that I really do love nature more than the concrete jungle, but there are things you can find that are not that great about trees.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

blocking the sun at every step

That's a feature. I don't want to be grilled by the sun everywhere I go.

Great for local air quality, too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Oh no, nature is getting in the way of...a civilization of bipedal animals that encroached on nature!

It's abhorrent!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ETA: Yes, that definitely needed clarification.

Gray shit on your everything, concrete fucking everywhere, looming threat of 2-ton steel death machines caving in your head, overheating everywhere, asphalt plowing through everything, soaking up the sun at every step, tough lessons in momentum for kids crossing them, lot of traffic and pollution when there are drivers out.

You could change half of your words, and keep the meaning the same, and make a compelling case that roads, or any other things, are humanity's greatest scourge.

If all you can do is complain that the natural world is insufficiently bent to your personal convenience, you are the problem with humanity right now.

Go touch whatever remaining local flora people like you have allowed to continue to exist, and quit being an imbecilic bellend online.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

trees are not as profitable

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Has the manufacturer even calculated how much energy is needed for production and how long it will take for the corresponding CO2 emissions to be amortized?

We are living in strange times...

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 day ago (10 children)

im guessing "where will the animals go" is also a stupid question?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you can for oxygen. Total Recall taught us this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Real answer is probably that they'd be used in addition to trees, designed to fit in places unsuitable for a tree.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can’t charge a subscription fee for trees.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

What you can do is take all the trees and put them in a tree museum and charge the people a dollar and a half to see them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That's where youre wrong.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

They get in the way of parking spots. The steel cages must rule supreme.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

These have to take up more space than a tree...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When this was proposed the idea was that one of tank can replace two trees and it can be put in corners that are too small for trees (and cars). When you consider the space for roots you can get at least one parking space per tank at the cost of making car-centric cities even more of an hell hole.

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