A little irrelevant but I saw a reel saying Tim saves Amazon forests with his own money. Apparently he has bought a lot of land there only for the sole purpose of saving Amazon. Can anyone fact check this?
I can’t find any good source for him having bought Amazon forest. So that’s probably made up. However he seems to be buying and donating to conservation wooded land in the Appalachians.
Apparently he bought it so he can steal endangered animals and make them fight in a “death arena” in his back garden. Please don’t fact check this, just accept it is true.
Yes. Greenwashing. You pay someone who wasn’t going to cut their trees to keep not cutting their trees, and you get carbon credits to offset your company’s pollution.
You change nothing but get to brag about saving the world.
Piggybacking on this to say the vast majority of “a tree planted for every _______” schemes are also greenwashing bullshit, including Ecosia if I’m not mistaken.
Most plant monocrops with no regard for how a natural, healthy forest functions and generally take no care to make sure the trees actually reach maturity or even adolescence.
There are exceptions, some companies who actually do it right (though carbon credits are a bullshit poison concept regardless), but I imagine most big companies use the corner-cutting options.
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A little irrelevant but I saw a reel saying Tim saves Amazon forests with his own money. Apparently he has bought a lot of land there only for the sole purpose of saving Amazon. Can anyone fact check this?
You could?
But I guess I will.
I can’t find any good source for him having bought Amazon forest. So that’s probably made up. However he seems to be buying and donating to conservation wooded land in the Appalachians.
https://www.treehugger.com/fortnite-founder-sweeney-invests-millions-forest-conservation-north-carolina-4868672
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2016/11/08/box-creek-wilderness-permanently-protected/93443704/
https://www.thegamer.com/fortnite-creator-epic-founder-time-sweeney-spending-millions-buying-up-protecting-forests/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/meet-tim-sweeney-the-epic-games-billionaire-who-quietly-bought-50000-acres-of-forest-to-save-it-from-developers/articleshow/129589611.cms
https://appalachian.org/sahc-south-yellow-mountain-preserve/
In that last one he is being thanked for a particularly large land donation.
Apparently he bought it so he can steal endangered animals and make them fight in a “death arena” in his back garden. Please don’t fact check this, just accept it is true.
Wouldn’t be the first time though.
Tim Sweeney is…
…the Tiger King.
Season 3 coming to a Black Mirror near you!
I don’t know about the Amazon, but he does own huge amounts of land in North Carolina which he has protected and/or donated to conservation schemes.
Is it that thing where people get paid for not cutting the forest down?
Yes. Greenwashing. You pay someone who wasn’t going to cut their trees to keep not cutting their trees, and you get carbon credits to offset your company’s pollution.
You change nothing but get to brag about saving the world.
Piggybacking on this to say the vast majority of “a tree planted for every _______” schemes are also greenwashing bullshit, including Ecosia if I’m not mistaken.
Most plant monocrops with no regard for how a natural, healthy forest functions and generally take no care to make sure the trees actually reach maturity or even adolescence.
There are exceptions, some companies who actually do it right (though carbon credits are a bullshit poison concept regardless), but I imagine most big companies use the corner-cutting options.