Do the math - Raking the forests

[packman]

746 million acres of forest in the United States. Do the math.

We’d need 249 million forestry cutters to run a sweep of every acre of forest (price tag: $37.3 trillion), assuming each is used for one day. But we have a lot more people to get it done. That job would take the entire labor force about a day and a half, and the subsequent raking/clearing would take another three to five days.

But there is no money for all those forestry cutters, so the acres would have to be cleared by people too. Raked. And that would take four people four days to clear ONE ACRE. Do that math

Let’s define a unit called the man-day, which is one person working for one day on clearing an acre. In the United States, clearing every acre by hand — raking it, if you will — would require about 9 billion man-days (total acreage times four people working for three days).

At the end of all that raking, we've got one hell of a pile of leaves to contend with, too. How big?

In the United States, those bags of debris would take up between 43.5 billion and 218 billion square feet. The latter amount is the equivalent of a cube 1.1 miles on each edge, just sitting there somewhere.

What the hell do we do with THAT?

Suggestion- Dump it on the front lawn of the White House
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/if-we-rake-forest-what-do-we-do-leaves-not

[DetlefK]

1. There is one crucial error that derails the whole article:

They regard his demented rants as worthy of discussion.




"Raking the forests" was never intended to be a factual statement. It was never intended to contribute something to a conversation.

It was something that was said for the sake of being said.

It's the equivalent to handing in a blank page when you were supposed to write an essay. You DID hand in something!!!!!

[SHRED]

2. When Republicans say "rake" they mean "rape"

As in rape the forests by clear-cutting them.