Johnny9Toes

t1_j3dd07n wrote

I was gonna make a comment about Taco Bell being top of Mexican restaurant polls because it's ubiquitous even if not anywhere near authentic. Same here. People around the rest of the country are raised on fake syrup and look for that fakeness as if it is what real maple syrup actually tastes like.

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OP t1_iystp2q wrote

I don't doubt "environmentalist causes". I doubt causes that rally support based on narrow representations of ecological processes, redirect attention from other problems/ solutions, and disregard the greater societal context of landscape management. Sure, we can stop cutting all the trees on public land, but it's sort of pointless if that timber just has to come from private land instead. I guess we could stop building things out of timber, but I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that concrete and steel are more sustainable materials.

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