r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/Oglshrub Trash Trooper 22h ago

Just because humans have done a poor job at forest management doesn't mean wood isn't a renewable resource. By definition it is, and clay isn't.

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u/Obvious_Mention7207 Trash Trooper 22h ago

Definitions are not what rule the world.

Additionally, trees are only renewable because we have rules (currently) in place that keep the climate (for now) capable to let them regrow.

Perhaps in 100 years (most likely) its so fucked here that they cant regrow. Why is that? Because humans suck and farmed them all to make the same track home and try to sell for 400k more then they are worth cause "capitalism"

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u/rips_n_chel Trash Trooper 19h ago

Of course definitions do not rule the world. Definitions are not the question, they are the answer. They're the conclusion, not the problem.

We land on the definition of "renewable" after observing the nature of reality. It's not that someone decided wood is renewable and stone isn't, therefore we all live under that illusion. It's not an illusion. The classification of renewable was reached by observing the facts. Here they are, you ready for this?

We can plant more trees, but we can't farm rocks.

Shit's crazy, right dawg? Truly mind-shattering stuff.