[HN Gopher] 'Sustainable' logging operations are clear-cutting C...
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       'Sustainable' logging operations are clear-cutting Canada's forests
        
       Author : Teever
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-09-08 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | mchannon wrote:
       | Clearcutting in practice is bad from an ecological perspective,
       | but let's not pretend that it exacerbates global warming.
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       | Most of that tree mass becomes lumber, which keeps a lot of
       | carbon out of the atmosphere. Once cleared, new trees take their
       | place and suck up more carbon. Lumber is a rare win-win for
       | climate change and the economy.
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       | As opposed to natural modes of tree death like fires or simply
       | rotting, in which all stored carbon is released...
        
         | gregable wrote:
         | A large and growing fraction of this lumber is used for wood
         | pellet production to be burned in the EU as "green" energy.
         | 
         | Sure, these trees are technically renewable over decades to
         | centuries but this doesn't matter all that much when we need to
         | rapidly reach net zero in only about 25 years.
        
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