Why nuke the forests?

These guys were extreme greenies and would want to minimize the space debris around Saturn.

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I think that's one of the questions Lowell is asking himself and for which he's not getting an answer. The other "rangers", just blindly follow orders.🐭

I gather from the words and actions of Lowell's fellow forest rangers, that at this juncture in the future, most humans actually viewed nature as dirty, smelly, and a nuisance. They actually despised Lowell's freshly grown, delicious food and favored the sanitized synthetics.

They wanted to watch a 'fireworks' show, and the end of countless species of animals and plants.

That's the most dismaying and incredible part of it to me; that humanity could evolve to a point where we would cast aside, with actual joy, the very ecology that had nurtured and birthed our species, and all the incredible variety and beauty of all of earth's native life.

It's the only way to be sure.



Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov

Never made sense to me either.

To avoid other companies to pick them up and use them.
Look into the auto-industry, the big corporations have no problem destroying their own property to avoid competitors getting their hand on it.

Because Americans think you can solve any problem by just launching a Nuke at it...
*Think of a certain president who thought nuking a hurricaine would stop it*