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If there's a larger benefit to planting trees, then it would make sense for the government to offer incentives to plant trees, so they could make money.
by jacalata 10y ago
If there's a larger benefit to planting trees, then it would make sense for the government to offer incentives to plant trees, so they could make money.
- shshhdhs 10y agoI imagine that would be a one time subsidy, not annually?
- TheGRS 10y agoForest land still needs to be maintained, at least to a degree.
- jacalata 10y agoDepends, if the benefit is from having them remain there then an annual tax credit or similar seems reasonable. You probably don't want a situation where you get paid more for annual logging and replanting then maintaining a forest in place.
- dTal 10y agoYou might, if the harvested wood were used for permanent structures. The whole operation would be a carbon sink.