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Finnish police have now launched a criminal investigation into Google's alleged environmental destruction of 250,000 trees at the construction site of the company's planned data center in Finland (yle.fi)
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[–] 31 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They should be forced to replant the same number of trunk diameter-inches. (Or diameter-meters, I guess, being in Finland.) In other words, for every 1' diameter tree they remove, they should have to plant 12 1" saplings (either back on the same site or elsewhere when they run out of space).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    They should have to plant back the same sized trees and replant wherever they sourced the trees from.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Replant the area and fund maintenance and custodianship until the forest reaches the state it was in before they clear-cut it. As well as conservation efforts to protect the surrounding areas until that point is reached.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Surface area of cross section of (1) 12" trunk: 113.1 square inches

    Surface area of cross section of (12) 1" trunks: 9.42 square inches

    The percent change from the single 12" trunk to the twelve 1" trunks is a decrease of 91.67%.

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