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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

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      meh so, first of all, almost all trees have finite lifespans, and if they aren't logged, they'll die of old age 2nd, huge trees aren't turned into paper - they are lovingly resawed to generate very very wide planks, which go for an ultra premium and which are used for tabletops https://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1397874032880590850 …

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

      2/ > Be me, glorious 800 year old tree > Survive countless wars > Sit in the sun all day, complete bliss > Old age; gonna die soon > Get cut down > Master sawyer contemplates, cuts > Planks sell for $5,000 each > Master craftsman labors over me > Live forever as beautiful table

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

      3/ Dimensions (TxWxL)3.80″ x 42″ - 50″ x 196″ Price: $7,178.99https://www.woodslabs.com/p-12702-parota-wood-slab-t6w-0la-ny58.aspx …

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

      4/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_i_DfncSQc …

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

      5/ As always, markets are the best way to deal with scarce, precious resources, and make sure that waste is minimized and maximum value is captured.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Meta

      6/ I disagree with this. First: again, note that trees have finite lifespans. Choice: log or allow to fall and rot. Second: you either quantify or you don't. If you don't, you make bad decisions that destroy value.https://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1397877609250308097 …

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      Meta @meta_nomad
      Replying to @MorlockP
      I don't like all natural beauty being subsumed to the level of quantification. Stating it's okay because it becomes an *expensive* tabletop doesn't change the fact a rare piece of nature was destroyed.
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

      7/ Tree lifespans: average and maximum. http://bigtree.cnre.vt.edu/lifespan.html 

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Irregardless

      8/https://twitter.com/AxisofOptions/status/1397878282536640512 …

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      Irregardless @AxisofOptions
      Replying to @MorlockP
      I’ve cut a lot of trees down in my arborist career. I always pray to God before each tree. That the wood may heat someone’s home. That the wood may become shelter. That the paper may become a book to transmit knowledge. That the surrounding trees flourish and thrive.
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted The Bicoloured-Python-Rock-Snake

      9/https://twitter.com/pythonrocksnake/status/1397877087004934150 …

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      The Bicoloured-Python-Rock-Snake @pythonrocksnake
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Reminds me of this great song: https://youtu.be/rJTCKol8VFU 
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Meta

          10/ absolutely agreed: things can be destroyed / wasted toohttps://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1397878930149941253 …

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          Meta @meta_nomad
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Not everything has to be turned into 'value'.
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Dr. Faisal Moola

          11/ yeah, there's no way to put a log on a boat where it can be brought to a sawmill that will convert it into $150,000 of high grade lumber; the only option is to chip it locally to create $500 of firewood pelletshttps://twitter.com/faisal_moola/status/1397722987596558338 …

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          Dr. Faisal Moola @faisal_moola
          Actually considering that there are no more saw mills in Vancouver Island that can process old growth trees of this size, this giant & others like it are probably going to be turned into wood pellets or exported as raw logs overseas - along with any jobs claimed by BC government
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Meta

          12/ 1) trees have a finite lifespan; this keeps being skipped over 2) your subjective appreciation IS an acknowledgement of value 3) if we don't quanitify than we make decisions at random / via intuition (and thus they are likely bad decisions)https://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1397879370048475145 …

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          Meta @meta_nomad
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I don't see the opposite of not-value as implicitly a waste. I guess in Libertarian terms, my subjective appreciation of that tree alive and standing will always override it as some table.
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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          13/ > , my subjective appreciation of that tree alive and standing will always override it as some table. yet you are not purchasing live trees to protect them from logging, so via principle of revealed preference, no, you don't actually care enough to override the table option

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

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          14/ OK, but this comes back to revealed preferences. You could do a job that's less fun and generates more income which you could use to "appreciate nature". Or you could run a podcast and say that other people should do X. >>> https://twitter.com/meta_nomad/status/1397880540481662983 …

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          15/ I work hard at a career that is often frustrating and infuriating, and I use the income from that to acquire land and forest, and then manage that forest in a way that preserves habitats, generates wood fuel, and optimizes for aesthetics. >>>

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Horrors Greeley’s Airtight Garage

          16/ All of life is tradeoffs. A tree either rots or is logged. An individual either does a fun job and has less power over his environment, or has a grinding job and has more power to manage land.https://twitter.com/HorrorsGreeley/status/1397881538927267840 …

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          Horrors Greeley’s Airtight Garage @HorrorsGreeley
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Brilliant. They always want someone else to pay for the Disney ideal of a tree naturally dying in a pristine forest, observed only by them.
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eric Richards

          17/ Agreed. I've got a few massive tree trunks in my forest, on their side, 3/4 rotted and covered with moss. On the one hand, sure, aesthetic...but on the other, that coulda been a timber framed workshop or a kitchen table for a family.https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1397881410548084736 …

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          Eric Richards @EricRichards22
          Replying to @MorlockP
          There's nothing sadder than a beautiful log tree that's been allowed to spoil. Such a waste
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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          18/ getting back to forest management and principle of revealed preference: commercial loggers actually do a pretty good job on improving / maintaining forest health, but they are bound by certain constraints (how much landowners will pay, how much lumber mills will pay). If >>

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          19/ >>> you have aesthetic preferences that trump that, and you want to give a level of attention to details and hands on care that "makes no sense" at a commercial level, then you need to take matters into your own hands and lavish unreasonable levels of work on the project.

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          20/ I have very specific goals for my 40 acres of forest , and I've invested a lot of time in learning about forest management, and I've invested a lot of money in tools. I'm carefully dropping dead trees, clearing ancient rock walls, working w my wife to plant new trees, >>>

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          21/ piling slash (tree lopped off limbs) in the undercanopy to slowly rot and return nutrients to the soil (and provide habitats for creatures in the intervening decades), cut out and burn invasive species that kill trees, etc. This is hard work. If you want THIS, do THIS.

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Herr DC Lange

          22/ Jack Nicholson voice: "Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a w̶e̶a̶p̶o̶n̶ few acres, a logging helmet, a chainsaw, a forestry trimmer, a spade, some saplings, and stand a post."https://twitter.com/CarlHedgren/status/1397883372924506113 …

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          Herr DC Lange @CarlHedgren
          Replying to @MorlockP
          It really is that simple. You like trees? Buy forest and let it be. You like forests? Buy forests and let it be in timescales that are as long as forests. Maybe you need a foundation or corporation or nation state to make it happen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Nature_Heritage_Foundation …
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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

          23/ https://twitter.com/starry_tim/status/1397883710578495495 …

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted cyr

          24/ This is the point that I keep coming back to, and that n̶o̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ few people want to acknowledge. We have no idea if that tree was live when it was logged, and I'd actually bet $1 that it was not.https://twitter.com/cyr_actual/status/1397883826802728962 …

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          cyr @cyr_actual
          Replying to @EricRichards22 @MorlockP
          Especially old growth stuff like that. They get lightning struck, windblown, etc. all the time. Do they think would it be better to let it rot?
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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          25/ People dislike this point bc it interferes w forces-of-good vs forces-of-evil narrative. Far better to DECLARE that these short sighted merchants KILLED J̶E̶S̶U̶S̶ a tree for not reason other than love of dollars than to consider that maybe this is just pragmatism.

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 May 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Evan

          26/ Genes strive to perpetuate themselves. Any one individual tree is just a temporary vessel.https://twitter.com/EvanMcM/status/1397884544037097475 …

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          Evan @EvanMcM
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Did not know they weren’t theoretically “infinite”, TIL. Makes sense I suppose given the systems that they’re made of.
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