@KiffinEileen Of course it has value before its cut down. People buy land for the forests on them all the time, even with no intention of cutting it down.
@freemo@KiffinEileen@dmayhood The devil needs some advocacy here (wording: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/devil%27s_advocate). It's not that it has no value until it's all cut down, its value is what can be harvested from it soon enough. So clearcutting, impatience and monoculture aren't due to capitalism per se./gen
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@freemo @KiffinEileen @dmayhood The devil needs some advocacy here (wording: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/devil%27s_advocate). It's not that it has no value until it's all cut down, its value is what can be harvested from it soon enough. So clearcutting, impatience and monoculture aren't due to capitalism per se./gen