Um, does he not realise that if you remove all trees from a forest area, then it is no longer a forest?
He is right, it might boost the logging industry, but trees have functions other than to just look decorative or help fires along. They do serve a purpose, for the soil, the air, the animals that rely on that forest. To remove large tracts of forest is to drastically change the environment & maybe the weather.
Quite a while ago, I remember reading an interesting article about conditions here in Vic (I am pretty sure it was Vic they were talking about too, which makes it all the more surprising), where back in about the 1870s vast areas of land were totally cleared for farming & everything went okay till about the 1890s I think it was, when a long drought hit the area. many farmers just walked away, abandoned their farms as they had no livelihood, and apparently those areas became desert like and have never fully recovered, are still considered very poor land.
Anyway, Trump won't get his wish, the people won't let him. He is just sounding off & it will all be forgotten when the next big thing comes along.
