Silviculture is an interesting subject, and while you're right that a lot of pulpwood is sourced from timber plantations, that isn't entirely benign. It is an a

Silviculture is an interesting subject, and while you're right that a lot of pulpwood is sourced from timber plantations, that isn't entirely benign. It is an an agricultural process and many use fertilizers (haber-bosch process, natural gas inputs), insecticides, and fungicides. On the production end, the modern kraft process plant still produces air and water pollution.