So, new headline....... The Horrors!!!!!! 500,000 tress cut down for Berlin Tesla factory!!!!! OMFG!!!!!!
Elon Musk’s Tesla felled half a million trees in order to build his giant Berlin electric car factory, satellite analysis shows.
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Hold on skippy, not so fast. Yep, that is true. But those trees were all spruce, whats called a monoculture. An ecologically sparse forest that harbors for less wildlife and ecological diversity than a natural forest. These monocultures were a quick way to keep previously denuded land stabilized and provide fodder for cardboard manufacturing.
This article is from 2020 and discusses the reforestation efforts Tesla was taking even back then. Which effort is ongoing, this year alone they have planted more than a million trees.
A recent video from Naturraum für Generationen has revealed a close look at the ongoing efforts to replace the trees that were cut down to make way for Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin facility. As indicated by the NfG in a series of updates, tree-planting efforts are now fully underway, and it will...
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Tesla Manufacturing’s X account recently shared that the company planted 1 million trees in 2024 alone.
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