So, good guy with a gun?
“The only thing that can stop a bad guy with an axe is a good guy with a gun.”
Armed lorax aiming at the thorax
Something randomly just popped into my head. A tactic of people trying to stop deforestation is to put like metal (I’m assuming rebar) in trees to destroy the cutting equipment. Did I just make that up, or is that a thing? Thanks!
No you didn’t, it’s called tree spiking. It was highly popular in the 70s to reduce the expansion of suburbs. Here’s a book describing it
Awesome, thank you! Good scoop!
Just checked that book out and now can’t stop reading it… Thanks for sharing :)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Earth-First
Earth First! was widely known for its tactics. It generally eschewed the lobbying and political deal-making associated with mainstream environmental organizations. Instead, its activists typically engaged in nonviolent direct action, such as civil disobedience to block environmentally harmful activities and “monkeywrenching” (the sabotage of machinery involved in environmental destruction). In the first years after the group’s formation, the use of direct actions—standing in front of bulldozers and putting spikes (e.g., metal rods or nails) in trees to prevent them from being cut—brought national news coverage to Earth First!. The group subsequently grew.
Very interesting! Thank you for the information! Glad I haven’t gone completely nuts… yet
Armed forest is a polite forest
Sick quad-nods Lorax.
I’m for this compromise on gun control. Only the trees get guns because they’re not hasty.
I read that in Danny Devito’s voice.
“So anyways, I started blastin’”
Oops, I dropped my monster rocket for my magnum bazooka.
I am the Lorax, I speak to the trees, and the trees speak Vietnamese.
