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Indeed. There's also the scale to consider. I remember flying over the Amazon, watching this endless sea of empty green drifting past for hours on end. Think

Indeed. There's also the scale to consider. I remember flying over the Amazon, watching this endless sea of empty green drifting past for hours on end. Thinking about these "football pitch per minute" logging numbers and thinking to myself "they're really going to need to step things up if they want to make a dent in this thing". Sure, it's ugly near big habitations. But even those are few and far between. Still, it's nice to hear that the logging rate is dropping that sharply. I agree with your sentiment. I guess "Things Aren't All That Bad After All" doesn't get as many clicks.

titzer 7y ago
I'm sorry, I want to be respectful to most people, but the tone-deafness of this comment was really upsetting. I read your comment and I'm really struggling to find words to help you grasp how flippant, disrespectful, and frivolous it is. You fly over in a jetplane and have a thought about how it's all fine. You utter a dig that they aren't eating nature quite fast enough for you to care. You treat the extermination of vast quantities of species and habitat as nothing--it's all fine, because it's so big. Or something. But you are murky about how big it all is. Hours of flying, it costs you no effort to zip across. Out the window it's just another screen, just another selection in the menu of movies to watch on your shiftless, bored existence. "Things Aren't All That Bad After All"--indeed. Just like carbon emissions weren't all that bad 40 years ago (compared to today!). And little by little, while people look the other way, gobble gobble. There's no undoing the destruction of pristine rainforest. It's really important that we stop it now; not when it gets down to 20% or 10%--now.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't cross into personal attack no matter how wrong or provocative another comment is or feels. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

titzer 7y ago

I'm sorry, I want to be respectful to most people, but the tone-deafness of this comment was really upsetting. I read your comment and I'm really struggling to find words to help you grasp how flippant, disrespectful, and frivolous it is. You fly over in a jetplane and have a thought about how it's all fine. You utter a dig that they aren't eating nature quite fast enough for you to care. You treat the extermination of vast quantities of species and habitat as nothing--it's all fine, because it's so big. Or something. But you are murky about how big it all is. Hours of flying, it costs you no effort to zip across. Out the window it's just another screen, just another selection in the menu of movies to watch on your shiftless, bored existence. "Things Aren't All That Bad After All"--indeed. Just like carbon emissions weren't all that bad 40 years ago (compared to today!). And little by little, while people look the other way, gobble gobble. There's no undoing the destruction of pristine rainforest. It's really important that we stop it now; not when it gets down to 20% or 10%--now.

dang 7y ago
Please don't cross into personal attack no matter how wrong or provocative another comment is or feels. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html