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Re: externalities Check out what fracking has done to Pennsylvania's formerly wild forests compared to New York; there is a hideously ugly network of access ro

by CarVac 8y ago

Re: externalities Check out what fracking has done to Pennsylvania's formerly wild forests compared to New York; there is a hideously ugly network of access roads and cut clearings for fracking wells . https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9889724,-78.7814974,8036m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9889724,-78.7814974,8036m/da... My friend pointed this out to me and I was truly disgusted...

hervature 8y ago
Well, it could be worse as seen in such "formerly wild forests" of New York. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manhattan,+New+York,+NY,+USA/@40.7591704,-74.0392715,18362m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2588f046ee661:0xa0b3281fcecc08c!8m2!3d40.7831411!4d-73.9709473 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manhattan,+New+York,+NY,+U...
whynotminot 8y ago
Disgusted by some roads?
snowwindwaves 8y ago
Same with all of british columbia, logging roads everywhere
- DrPhish 8y ago
  At least that's for logging and not fracking. Logging sequesters millions of cubic meters of carbon (trees), and the BC forest license program requires audited 3rd party replanting, ensuring continuously increasing sequestration. Even the amount of carbon sequestered in wooden telephone poles across North America is staggering, let alone houses and other structures.
slavik81 8y ago
Here's the same place, just zoomed out a little: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9889724,-78.7814974,128506m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9889724,-78.7814974,128506m/... Pretty much everything that's light green on that map is forest that was cleared for farmland. By 1872, the eastern states had cleared 52% of their forests, mostly for agriculture. Habitat destruction is an underappreciated problem, but let's keep things in perspective. Those dirt access roads are narrow strips of forest, and they'll be quickly overgrown once they're abandoned.

by CarVac 8y ago

hervature 8y ago

Well, it could be worse as seen in such "formerly wild forests" of New York. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manhattan,+New+York,+NY,+USA/@40.7591704,-74.0392715,18362m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2588f046ee661:0xa0b3281fcecc08c!8m2!3d40.7831411!4d-73.9709473 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Manhattan,+New+York,+NY,+U...

whynotminot 8y ago

Disgusted by some roads?

snowwindwaves 8y ago

Same with all of british columbia, logging roads everywhere

DrPhish 8y ago
At least that's for logging and not fracking. Logging sequesters millions of cubic meters of carbon (trees), and the BC forest license program requires audited 3rd party replanting, ensuring continuously increasing sequestration. Even the amount of carbon sequestered in wooden telephone poles across North America is staggering, let alone houses and other structures.

slavik81 8y ago

Here's the same place, just zoomed out a little: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9889724,-78.7814974,128506m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9889724,-78.7814974,128506m/... Pretty much everything that's light green on that map is forest that was cleared for farmland. By 1872, the eastern states had cleared 52% of their forests, mostly for agriculture. Habitat destruction is an underappreciated problem, but let's keep things in perspective. Those dirt access roads are narrow strips of forest, and they'll be quickly overgrown once they're abandoned.