Actually you might wanna spend some time looking to this a little further it turns out these are not ordinary forests these are called boreal forests these sometimes take 100 years to recover in due to the short growing season and sometimes they don't actually recover.
And beyond that even when they do recover that's when they have good topsoil. In this situation Google removed the topsoil as well.
Speaking of the topsoil there's other add-on effects such as exposing methylmercury under the topsoil which gets washed away when it now rains. That mercury as well as other sediment makes its way into the water system and it actually clogs fish's gills and poisons the water system.
On top of that I discovered that it's actually 2 square miles not just one. But the fact that it's only a percent of a percent of Finland's total forest isn't really a useful comparison: Imagine if Google bulldozed 3,400 American homes without permission would we say oh there's still plenty of homes left?
And beyond that even when they do recover that's when they have good topsoil. In this situation Google removed the topsoil as well.
Speaking of the topsoil there's other add-on effects such as exposing methylmercury under the topsoil which gets washed away when it now rains. That mercury as well as other sediment makes its way into the water system and it actually clogs fish's gills and poisons the water system.
On top of that I discovered that it's actually 2 square miles not just one. But the fact that it's only a percent of a percent of Finland's total forest isn't really a useful comparison: Imagine if Google bulldozed 3,400 American homes without permission would we say oh there's still plenty of homes left?