Tug of war over Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, called the ‘lungs of America’

1. The tongass needs to be harvested . To much defect in the trees, you idiots dont notice all of the rotten dying trees . That's what the whole tongass looks like .

2. Money more important than air!? Ikyfl!!

3. How the hell would anyone wanna cut down some trees when we see Mother Nature has become more deadly

4. All you need to know is in the last part when the suit Eric Nichols, Owner of Alcan Timber, says that he is not concerned about the Tongass, the environment, and climate change. Literally evil. You can have a pseudo-scientific debate about the legitimacy of climate change, but we absolutely have a responsibility to the environment and keeping old-growth habitats intact. The hard part about this argument is that people do consume plenty of wood products and we need to get the resources from somewhere. This is why we need a sustainable forest management plan across America and Earth to manage risks associated with deforestation and habitat loss.

5. 7:07 “we don’t believe that”…. OF COURSE HE DOESN’T! What an idiotic person for his rejection of simple scientifically supported claims

6. Our leaders should relinquish ownership of the land they are so mismanaging all over the world.

7. Our responsible overlords strike again. What they don’t know is that all these destructive actions are destroying our economy.

8. People are fucked man do not clear cut forest thats so fucked up.

9. "When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money."

10. Provide lumber to the world blah blah blah political code word for we value profits more than human or natural life these people are truly scum. Boo Hoo people can't get by in this economy well that's because of LEECHES like you greedy billionaire if these oxygen thief human trash actually contributed to society rather than exploited labor and the environment for profits we wouldn't be in this mess

11. "It's a crop." Fine, so buy an area of barren land and grow the wood you want to cut. Don't harm these ancient forests.

12. Protect what we have left of Nature if you look at our past history the logging companies already had their say and got away with taking large amounts of forested lands in America. Don't put money before nature or it will kill us all. I can't breathe your money or eat it. Why is the government so concerned about people working? Because they want them paying taxes so those government people can put more money in their pockets. Money is not more important than food, water, air, and clothing Wich nature provides to us all.

13. the Governor of Alaska is a greedy greedy man

14. Corruption. Its all about the money in the end for these fools

15. time to vote for another governor

16. "wheres your amazon box's going to come from?"… is that really his argument for murdering lives that have literally been growing for 4-8xs longer than him….? so sad

17. Logging old growth should be a criminal act.

18. "Is this irreplaceable-within our lifetime tree really worth more than the profits i can make from it???"
    This is the problem with capitalism valuing profit over anything.

19. Hemp could help alleviate the demand for lumber. HEMP!!!!

20. I have to agree. We shouldn't log these old growth forests. There are indeed other forests that are prone to heavy forest fires that need thinning. Plenty of trees we can log to meet consumer demand that won't hurt the environment.

21. Clear cutting forest is wrong. Thinning certain number of trees in forest is okay if done in a way that causes little disturbance, but the lumber industry has proven time and time again that they can't be trusted

22. LEAVE THE FOREST ALONE DO NOT CUT ONE FUCKING TREE OR THOU SHALL FEEL GODS TOUCH

23. They better not touch that forest !!!

24. They call it a renewable resource? Are you serious right now? You're going to compare old growth trees to fucking corn? Corn that can be planted and harvested in one season. Versus a tree requiring what? Several decades IF NOT longer? Just to reach that level of growth required to be useful to us. How about you leave the forest alone, you people are already fucking up the Amazon beyond repair.

25. The businessman that wants to increase logging doesn't believe in climate change…. see a trend here?

    Protect your mother ❤

26. World needs Hemp

27. Typical colonists still want to extort the planet for their profit and no one else’s

28. Make them loggers pay by making them plant new trees

29. We need our planet to be healthy b/c it doesn't belong to us

30. Keep the healthy old trees please

31. So sad that we're losing so many places like this

32. Greedy

33. To the people who believe humans causing climate change is a joke: yes, you are correct. The planet continuously goes through climate changes, hence we had heat waves and ice ages over the course of history. What you fail to understand is that the waste left behind by human beings has sped up climate change to the point that we will see and live through the negative impacts that come with that. That is our fault and you simply have to come to terms with it, hopefully before it is too late to do anything about it.

34. Hemp is a more reliable source.. leave the Tongass alone

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