Short Film: How Clear Cutting Could Lead to Massive Floods

[@Seeker]

How much did you know about clear-cutting and watersheds before this film? Let us know down below and tune in every Tuesday for more films from around the world!

[@a-aron2276]

Clear-cutting should be illegal, you should be required to plant more than you take in a sustainable way. The people signing these leases should be required to personally insure the people it could affect for 100% of the costs should something go wrong. Make the punishment not worth disobeying the requirements for permits.

[@jyminewtron1416]

I live down in Florida and a neighbor tree farms but he has to replace what he sells every time and for about the first 6 years my back yard is so mushy and holds alot of water but as the trees grow my yard dries up and floods less during hurricane season. I never understood that but seeing this taught me why its always been that way.

[@acewmd.]

Funnily enough most company's do plant more than they cut down, since it doesn't make sense for them to not have more trees to cut later. I don't know why this one being so stupid about it if they are but it's really not a sustainable business model to not plant more trees after you cut them down.

[@Mygg_Jeager]

They are, and they do. The problem is that it takes 30 years for replanted saplings to reach adult height and start having the impact of a real forest again. Clear cutting tracts have a limiting scope and scale. What appears to be happening is that they're issuing more permits for more tracts, more closely packed together. And that greatly reduces the entire point of limiting clear cutting in the first place.

[@Naturamorpho]

Either in BC or in the Amazon... it is a sad realization of how harmful our ways are to this limited planet and its ever shortening resources.

[@veggieboyultimate]

The way we treat nature is cruel and does hurt other people in communities which can lead to poverty. This needs attention everyone!

[@aashilr]

This was shot really well, very nice Daniel!

[@RedShirtSmith]

2021 saw significant flooding across BC which destroyed highways and cut off one of Canada's largest cities from the rest of the country by road. I can't imagine how that must have affected Grand Forks.

[@mikeharrington5593]

A story, with different variations, being played out all over the world - the commonality being *corporate greed*

[@josephinemitchell9504]

Makes you wonder if the land is wanted for something else because it looks like thats a big possibilty. Feel for the people who are suffering through this.

[@CannabinatedFantasy]

actually this is why theres also increasing desertification which is much worse

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

Actually thats actually true actually

[@Lou_Mansfield]

I'm glad the local filmmaker made a documentary about the flood. The province NEEDs to understand how trees and watersheds work naturally to sustain the land. Also, the wildfires this year caused devastating air pollution to many north american cities.

[@SubvertTheState]

This is enraging. People are caught up in morality while our forest and wildlife are being ravaged, hurting our people and future. Corporations are destroying our world.

[@MJ-zc3xf]

The ending was really well put!

[@TheKlink]

Not could, DOES. Think of the surface area of the leaves and the effect of slowing water befor it hits the ground, the roots in holding the soil together and helping with infiltration. At the very least seed a cover crop.

[@Mygg_Jeager]

That only reduces the severity of the impact as its falling, and does nothing to reduce the total volume of water. We know this by studying flood rains in jungle regions such as southeast Asia and the Amazon. Forests help prevent landslides during heavy rainfall, but not rivers jumping their banks.

[@Mygg_Jeager]

@@capturedflame That's true, but only in regards to overall annual precipitation. Trees and greenery can't absorb sudden and vast rainfalls, such as monsoons, and can't absorb rapidly melting snowpack. Trees help, but in regards to flood mitigation I think they're only the 4th most impactful element. (After precipitation, hotter summers, and ground drainage/geology.) Trees are necessary to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and reduce global warming, and provide ground cover/shade from direct sunlight. But as I've said, planting more trees isn't gong to noticeably soften the dramatic impact of these now common, cataclysmic flooding events.

[@hollymiranda0826]

@@Mygg_Jeager uiiu

[@Mygg_Jeager]

@@hollymiranda0826 what

[@TonyHoneycutt]

If you cut down a tree, plant a new one, it only makes sense.

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

Even 2 !

[@vwatohd]

Same thing just happened to the east coast of Australia during our very wet summer, large sections of temperate rainforest in the south to the tropical rainforests in the north have been cleared since 200years ago for fully cleared pasture, now every time it rains heavily it floods

[@uhohhotdog]

I’d have a “word” with those loggers. And I don’t mean word.

[@AlphaLibre9]

Are the logging companies responsible for this? Why aren't logging companies required to replant and rotate the trees that are cut?

[@acewmd.]

So whatever company did this is just stupid, its common practice to replant trees where you cut, you know because otherwise you'll be out of a job in a few years, these guys are just plain stupid.

[@spirited1puppetmastered917]

I agree with your film 100% but you have only gone half the distance the after effects of rapid snowmelt in the spring leading to flooding means that the forests are dry because there’s no shade the snow melts too soon. This leads to forest fires when the forest dries out two months earlier and then we got our summer weather in the Interior. We end up having a very early and prolonged fire season so the provincial Government and the excessive logging by logging companies are to blame and this is our tax dollars at work. The provincial government needs to be held accountable for this and they need to change the way they log the Forrest clear-cut logging should not be allowed only smaller selective logging should be allowed. The government needs to reduce its allowed annual logging by at least 50%.

[@moepixie]

To bad this is everywhere because greed is everywhere, hopefully someone will do something soon.

[@paulochon7692]

Shame on Canada for deforestation.

[@thelordvega]

Oh now it matters not when we were trying to prevent it... Wait till the mud slides 😭

[@ray1956]

The Canary in the Coal Mine 😱☹️👀🧑🏿‍💻👨🏿‍⚕️👨🏿‍⚕️

[@Dfishingofficial]

Banjir melanda sebuah kota.

[@glike2]

Where do we get the trees to build more houses to fix the homeless problem?

[@tudorjason]

Is deforestation not being taught in schools anymore?

[@emanuelgomez6336]

I'm glade that people are seeing this I bet are government still don't know about it I bet they wish they stop deforestation

[@lordofnothing.]

yes.

[@glike2]

He need more water in the Southwest so a pipeline from the flooding areas towards south should be built

[@kristensorensen2219]

#381👍😤💔This is so tragic and stupid!! Clear cutting is too easy and profitable but this flooding and erosion is going to be a disaster long term!! I live in Oregon and logging caused the Tillamook burn that burned up a generation of forest. It was avoidable and an abomination!! Clear cutting is wrong!

[@Killinemkid]

The solutions to these problems won't be simple regulations. The West has become regulation crazy. It will be technological innovation and new infrastructure. Singapore, China - these regions are far more flood prone than North America. They are coming up with ways to combine development with sustainability. Part of the problem is people choosing to live in small communities rather than cities. The best way to prevent these kinds of ecological impacts? Leave the land for someone else to buy. Canada is one of the least population dense countries in the world. There's no way that the problem can be summarized as simply 'cutting down too many trees.' Humans have been diverting water for centuries, millennia even. We have 3 options - Anthropocentric development Ecocentricism And Symbiotic Development or Permastructure. Western environmentalists are focused on the wrong option.

[@vangelissotiropoulos7365]

Deforestation all over the world 🌎

[@abhijitha2710]

👍🏼👍🏼

[@michaelallen8921]

So F****d!!!!

[@SHCBiddu]

Call Sadguru And plant trees

[@freebie808]

Climate control

[@Lovehandels]

Easy fix guys! Just make earth hotter and it will melt and dry up the snow and water! It's simple geometry people! Stop being so dramatic!

[@JACKSPARROW-wp7pb]

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