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   Red Oak (redoak@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:04:01 JST Red Oak

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   And I think about how much of the living energy of the mountains for a hundred years or more is bound up in that wood. If we had the time and the tools and the skills, we could put so much of it to so many uses. Or we could leave it be, rearrange paths and roads and plans to accommodate the needs of the soil.

   But instead, the bulk of it will be (as far as I can tell) shredded, burned, or just dumped, far from where it grew.

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     Red Oak (redoak@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:04:02 JST Red Oak

     Thinking again about the mind-boggling mass of wood that's being moved and disposed of across western NC after the storm. There's so much, and it's heavy, and unwieldy, and dangerous at times. Much of it resists easy stacking. It's obviously impractical to dispose of, in the modern solid waste sense. But the demands of our harsh God, The Economy, insist that it must be removed and discarded anyway, with all reasonable speed, to minimize disruptions to profit.

     bhaugen repeated this.