Toyota to deforest and flatten mountains to build a hybrid car facility

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  1. Tenebrouser

    Tenebrouser Craft...or is it crap?

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    Hypocrisy from the global warming/green movement? No way. I refuse to believe it.
     
  2. NemesisBruticus

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    Dear Toyota:

    Think!
     
  3. trump

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    Dear NemesisBruticus:

    You can't make cars out of thin air.
     
  4. NemesisBruticus

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    Dear Trump:

    Destroying the environment to make cars that save it doesnt make any sense.
     
  5. trump

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    Dear NB (and all others reading this who are all "GRAH, Y U DO THIS TOYOTER"):

    If you need a new factory/research center in Japan, odds are that you're going to have to clear land, as all the cityspace is occupied to the point of being cramped. This is especially true if you're talking about such a large project as a 10 km test course and research center, which tend to be heavy on landspace. If Toyota took absolutely zero concern about the environmental impact of the project, I'd be incredibly surprised. They probably looked at several sites, and picked this one based on several factors, including minimizing the effect it had on the local plants and animals. Maybe with all this negative press, they'll move it, but I doubt it.

    Also, it's spelled sense. A seance is a ritual performed to attempt to establish contact with the dead.
     
  6. NemesisBruticus

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    You quoted before I edited.
     
  7. Cheetatron

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    What I'm saying is that there is abandoned space all over the world there's hardly any reason to deforest anything/place anywhere obviously I would be more familiar with abandoned ish in the USA hell if it had to be japan well then I'm sure they can find someplace that's not an area of forestry
     
  8. inferno4565

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    Wow, flattening mountains and covering up Rice paddies? Nice Toyota, nice.
     
  9. RabidYak

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    Ironic, but hardley surprising.

    Flat, empty and readily developable land is like rocking horse shit in Japan and there isn't a planning authority in any developed country that would want something like that in or around an urban area. Considering how much its going to cost to landscape 10km of difficult terrain, I hardley think that Toyota would be putting it there in the first place if there was a more viable site nearby.
     
  10. toma

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    this would have been better if the title was "Toyota to deforest and flatten hippies to build a hybrid car facility"
     
  11. NemesisBruticus

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    How do you deforest a hippie?
     
  12. Gingerchris

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    Haircut.

    Just mind the wildlife living on him.
     
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    I doubt this.
    Last article I didn't believe says that going green could be doing the opposite: take the train can be more environmentally damaging. These "scientists" never idled on the 405 freeway haven't they...
     
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    But it is damn funny.
     
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    ... ******s.