How do i start a protest?!...its for deforestation...i see it all around my county....can i live in a clearcut

Question

can i pitch a tent and block the trail or something...how do i make them listen to me and tell them its bad!!!! i want to make them listen to me!!

Answer 1

tree huggers chained them self to logging truck and spiked trees and spend many night in trees. but logging truck ran over them any way. and fell the trees with them in the tree. the tree hugger died. you go girl

Answer 2

Don't use wood products.

Answer 3

There are more important issues to deal with.

Answer 4

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A FOREST FIRE, LATELY SOME ARE CAUSED BY THE DRYNESS A LIGHTNING STRIKE CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING  ATTRIBUTES.

Answer 5

Write letters to your state and federal representatives. Attend city hall meetings and state your concerns. Write a letter to the editor of your newspaper. Contact environmental impact groups in your area and become active. If you can get enough like minded people together, form an activist coalition for your cause. Remember, just because they listen doesn't mean they will agree.

Answer 6

Gather people who agree with you. Then start making signs and gathering support. Soon enough, you should be getting lots of recognition.

Answer 7

Wow, you environmentalist are all the same.  Scary.  You are right everyone else is wrong, no arguments allowed and it is all based on your feelings.  Their have been other people in history who have acted this way.  They are normally referred to as dictators.  I am curious as to why you think it is so bad?.  Most logging companies do as much as they possibly can to replant after cutting.  In many states, it is law.  Do you understand that this is a renewable energy source?  They will grow back.  Why not protest all of the corn and wheat that is harvested every year?  They are plants that absorb carbon after all?  If you really want to do something to stop deforestation, stop mowing your lawn and urge your neighbors to do the same so that it turns back into the forest it once was.  If everyone in America were to do this you wouldn't have to worry so much about logging because much of our land would still be covered with trees.  We need those nice big lawns though because they are so pretty and they up the value of our homes.  What to do, what to do!!!

Answer 8

i agree.deforestation is bad.for those who dont know the meaning,deforestation can mean to make space for building stuff or just paper.they can grow back indeed,but it willl take long long time and painstakingly when they grow back,who knows what happened.

Answer 9

The more people, the better. I support you, let me know what happens. Maybe I'll join

Can you live in a clearcut area? Sure... but deforesters wouldn't be there. They would be in an area where trees are still around

Answer 10

post signs make a meeting and wait for people to come and then walk around holding signs. and think of a great reason why that is very bad

Answer 11

What country?

If you are in the U.S.A. the land being logged (even clearcut) is more than likely privately owned.  The forest was also more than likely planted by the company that owns the land 20-30 years ago.

Would you pitch a tent and try to stop a farmer from harvesting his corn?  It would be EXACTLY the same thing, as trying to stop a farmer.  The only difference is that a farmer can grow his crop in 90-120 days.  A lumber company must wait between 8-30 years to harvest their crop.

People tie the lumber operations up in court all the time, and with silly protests.  They also do illegal things, like spiking trees, which kill, and horribly mutilate men working in the timber industry.

If you live in a country other than the U.S.A., or Canada, you need to be very, very careful.  A girl protesting logging in a country like South America would be highly likley to find herself raped, then murdered, a simple hours diversion before the days work started.

If you live in the U.S.A. you need to realize that there are twice as many trees today, as there were when the Civil War started!  Companies who log in the U.S.A. replant the forests when they are done.  

You have no right to tell people what they can and cannot do on privately owned land.  The sale of timber from National Forests often goes to support the National Park, and the school system.  If you cause them trouble, and money, you are "stealing" money from the National Park system, and the public school system.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Had nine THOUSAND native trees planted on her farm two years ago....has every right to have an opinion on the subject, and is completely for managed forestry