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What's wrong with trees?

• exabrial 1y ago
  Nothing at all! But it requires careful forest management and people often don’t understand how young growth wood is an infinitely sustainably resource… knee jerk reaction is oh that’s bad
• bell-cot 1y ago
  Doing it at scale, with trees, is called a "tree plantation". Lumber companies already have a lot of those, and ruthlessly optimize them for profit. Vs. environmentalists vastly prefer natural forests. For example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112723000221 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037811272...
• thehappypm 1y ago
  Trees die, and turn back into CO2
  • hypertele-Xii 1y ago
    Not if you build houses from them.