Back in my day...

3 years ago by blahsay to c/comicstrips

menemen 83 points 3 years ago

Racist grampa tree has a point, though. Monocultural conifer tree forests are oftentimes a bad idea. We have a lot of problems with our (artificially created) monocultural conifer forests here in German lately. Basically they are just dying of large scale, due do pests. It really is heartbreaking to see hectars of dead trees. Multiculturalism is just the better way and leads to stronger societies, ehm, forests.

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fluxion 21 points 3 years ago

Already too many cultures there for grandpa's taste

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samus12345 7 points 3 years ago

Grandpa needs to lay off the Tree Fox News.

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oce 1 point 3 years ago

Flying Fox News

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Neon 8 points 3 years ago

not necessarily stronger, but definitely more resilient

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SlikPikker 7 points 3 years ago

Dying of beetles isn't very strong

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joyjoy 32 points 3 years ago

They've got it backwards. Forests start as mostly pine until the larger oaks move in and block out the sun.

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DontTreadOnBigfoot 18 points 3 years ago

Oaks gentrifying the forest

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prettybunnys 9 points 3 years ago

True, but the planting of spruce and pine trees in areas that were deforested has created these huge monoculture “forests” that struggle to get the deciduous trees.

This is a fun comic because it tells two stories.

The old oak may have remembered the forest as it was and begrudge the evergreen new growth …. But that is a sign it’s regrowing.

Alternately … yeah, the monoculture replanting for forests is not great for the environment and helps to spread diseases.

Racist grandpa tree got a point but also … can’t see the forest for the trees.

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boeman 7 points 3 years ago

And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw

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EffortlessEffluvium 4 points 3 years ago

Those darn maple rabblerousers

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Devi 5 points 3 years ago

That's really country specific, in the UK we only have one pine and it's not that common. We have a huge issue currently because after the wars they replanted a lot of land with pine as it was fast growing and we needed wood, but now they've outcompeted the native trees so there's a big program to get rid of the pine and plant native trees, but it needs to be done really slowly or the whole forest is messed up.

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angrystego 29 points 3 years ago

I think grampa has a tree identification problem. It looks like a spruce forrest or something, definitely not pines.

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bitwaba 43 points 3 years ago

Grandpa: Japanese spruce, Chinese pine. They all look the same to me.

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samus12345 11 points 3 years ago

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Gormadt 30 points 3 years ago

To grandpa all evergreens look like pines

He's a bit... stuck in a rut

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mars 5 points 3 years ago

Some would say he's a product of his time (thyme?)

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Crul 7 points 3 years ago

Source: The oldest tree : comics

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NerdyPopRocks 1 point 3 years ago

Pines really bust up the forest floor. I see you grandpa

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sirico 1 point 3 years ago

Coniferous forests are weak an be ruin diversity no no I don't care who hears it I said it oh I thought this was America

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blahsay 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah they are actually terrible. Nothing else survives really. No birds, no animals. They're eerily quiet.

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Rooty 1 point 3 years ago

Gymnospermae are older than duodecuos trees, granpa. They were here first.

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Venat0r 1 point 3 years ago

Depends what type of pine and where in the world it is...

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