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Originally Posted by opendoor
But it depends on the source of the wood. If they're using waste wood from commercial logging operations like this, this, or this (all those pictures are from BC), then it's a very different scenario than fossil fuels. If that wood would otherwise be burnt (to prevent fuel for forest fires) or left to rot, then the CO2 is getting released one way or another as a byproduct of harvesting the wood. So it's not a question of emitting CO2 or not; it's a question of do we get some benefit out of those emissions and use them to replace other emissions? |
You are right, and you can add if logging companies replant equal or more amount of trees, which many do, then it does make sense.
The issue however is related to the fact that BBC & others have done some research and discovered that the logging companies are lying out of their ass, and also that in the US, a lot of slow growth forest is being cut down.