Reforestation is an extremely time-consuming affair with many, many possible ecological and economic downfalls and/or environmental harms. As a sidebar to your

Reforestation is an extremely time-consuming affair with many, many possible ecological and economic downfalls and/or environmental harms. As a sidebar to your suggestion of using more wood, perhaps a partial step in that direction is greater recycling of unfinished wood products into chips and dust for use in engineered wood outputs. Similarly, a change in the chemistry of wood finishing products (stains, coatings, paints, adhesives) to 100% removable or neutralized state would permit discarded finished wood products to be recycled rather than dumped. So, to directly reply to your question, cutting down trees and replacing them with more is not a quick or necessarily successful strategy.