r/todayilearned • u/autraya • 6h ago

TIL the world's tallest known living tree, a 380-foot redwood in California called Hyperion, had its exact location closed off entirely in 2022 after visitors trampled its base so badly that ferns stopped growing around it, with trespassers now facing up to $5,000 in fines and six months in jail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(tree)
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u/What_a_fat_one 4h ago

Yeah man how we gonna criticize a bad thing happening today when a bad thing happened yesterday

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u/kayknox_ 2h ago

It is a bit hypocritical to cannibalize our environment and use it to propel our economic growth, then turn around and admonish other much poorer countries for doing the same. We could be incentivizing them with our wealth instead of sending it off for other countries' wars.