Issue313
06-09-2012, 02:25 AM
Look at pictures of the countryside of North Korea and South Korea side by side. You might notice that South Korea has considerably more trees. They aren't there because democracy and freedom has fertilised the soil, its that North Korea can't afford to import oil, and has chopped all the decent trees down to use as fuel and food.
A similar pattern has unfolded on the island of Hispaniola, where the Dominican Republic has been able to import oil, and the ignorant niggers in Haiti haven't, and have deforested the whole country.
In Spain and England, a major problem when building their various ships and armadas was that they kept running out of trees. Ships require good wood, oak is the best, and the English were able to source enough of it from Ireland and Wales to keep themselves going. The Spanish, being from a drier land, ran out of wood quickly, and were beaten down by the English.
In old pictures from Ireland, you might notice less trees than currently exist. We're living in a golden age for aesthetic tree growth. In previous ages they were cut down much sooner, to give wood for building or for fuel. Ireland has been overpopulated for a long time, and lacked the will to protect the trees outside large estates. Something the same occurred in Iceland and Denmark.
We have lots of trees growing all over now, and we have the exploitation of the Earth's materials, oil, rock and iron, to thank for that, but when the materials get expensive people always turn on the trees.
A similar pattern has unfolded on the island of Hispaniola, where the Dominican Republic has been able to import oil, and the ignorant niggers in Haiti haven't, and have deforested the whole country.
In Spain and England, a major problem when building their various ships and armadas was that they kept running out of trees. Ships require good wood, oak is the best, and the English were able to source enough of it from Ireland and Wales to keep themselves going. The Spanish, being from a drier land, ran out of wood quickly, and were beaten down by the English.
In old pictures from Ireland, you might notice less trees than currently exist. We're living in a golden age for aesthetic tree growth. In previous ages they were cut down much sooner, to give wood for building or for fuel. Ireland has been overpopulated for a long time, and lacked the will to protect the trees outside large estates. Something the same occurred in Iceland and Denmark.
We have lots of trees growing all over now, and we have the exploitation of the Earth's materials, oil, rock and iron, to thank for that, but when the materials get expensive people always turn on the trees.