Who was in the wrong here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V0 6ZOQuo0k

>>94345188
Neither, that's the point. It was two opposing viewpoints, each with their one merits and flaws trying to find a reasonable solution in a situation where there is no clear cut right answer.

>>94345188
How can you be bad enough at reading the surface text of works intended for grade schoolers to be asking that

>>94345188
Onceler for not replanting the one thing keeping him in business

>>94345281
This. He sucked as a capitalist.

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>>94345281
It wouldn't have kept him in business even if he'd planted two trees for every one he cut down, it takes ten months for a seed to germinate, ten years to sprout, then ten more to reach full maturity. At best, he could have set up a business designed to sell product in an extremely limited run every twenty years. "Buy a Thneed now, get 'em while you can, because when they're gone, they won't be back for another twenty years!" It's like the natural conclusion of the Disney Vault style of inducing artificial scarcity to drive up prices.

>>94345441
And that's why you separate the forest into 21 parts. Cut down 1 part per year and process it, then replant. Rinse repeat. This lets you sell your product yearly and indefinitely. Much easier to drum up business on a yearly basis than a 20-year basis.

>>94345243
Here's my answer.
>Grow several industrial forests of truffula trees
>Harvest them in a cyclicla manner
>Produce constantly more trees and keep on making thneeds

If paper mills have been doing it for decades, why didn't Onceler do it?
Because Dr Seuss was a heavy handed nature lover who wanted to create a propaganda piece about how we destroy nature instead of an intelligent critique.

how bad

>>94345281
Definitely this. Onceler was an idiot.

>>94345616
Clear cutting and replanting only the same tree over and over still fucks up the ecosystem though, plus it can lead to landslides

>>94345616
To be fair, sustainable forestry is a pretty modern concept, and even now there are a lot of countries where it isn't practiced.

>>94345777
>Landslides
>On a fucking field
Seriously, introduce yourself to industrial forestry.

>>94345800
>field
Most industrial forests are situated on hills

>>94345792
Relatively modern, sustainable forestry in America started around the turn of the 20th century, well before Lorax

>>94345188
Onceler for not killing that commie on sight.

>>94345281
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>>94346934
How bad could he really be? He's just doing what comes naturally.