Christmas: The end of the ban on clear cutting in the forests of Budapest
As our paper also wrote, a new decree makes logging easier, with which the government aims to make firewood available to the population.
Gergely Karácsony, mayor of Budapest, responded to this on Facebook.
He says the solution to the energy crisis is a responsible energy policy, the use of renewable energy sources, and not cutting down forests.
“Due to the lack of gas, the country is being prepared for wood burning and all prohibitions in the way of logging will be removed; it will also be easier to cut down trees in protected areas. If there is any further increase in climate anxiety, the fact that the government is not only improving our prospects, but has switched to double speed in that the entire country cuts the tree under, in the strictest sense of the word,” he wrote.
The government decree completely overwrites the hard-to-achieve result, that in the protected forests of Budapest more clearing may occur, nature conservation takes priority over logging, and in the reconstruction of naturally valuable forests, native tree species come to the fore in the plant plans.
According to the head master, the government should have had the opportunity to realize years earlier that the real utility reduction is in building and window insulation, in passive houses, and in the use of renewable energies. The poorest have been heating with wood until now, they were not affected by the utility reduction, it is time for the state to finally show solidarity and provide meaningful support to these people – he added.
“And with us, with the municipalities, they have an obligation to negotiate, they are still encroaching on our forests,” he concluded.