It's strange from an environmental "culture" standpoint (the treehugger epithet, "save the trees"), but to truly get a good carbon sink out of planted forests y

It's strange from an environmental "culture" standpoint (the treehugger epithet, "save the trees"), but to truly get a good carbon sink out of planted forests you then need to cut them down, bury them, and plant more ones. Which is basically what happens if we use wood for all our housing and as many consumer products as possible and chuck them in a landfill. But yes, lies, damn lies, and accounting is definitely a danger to any environmental regulation. It has been for decades, all the industry players know how to game the system: - no real penalties - insiders in the regulatory offices - hide large amounts of pollution from inspectors - accumulate penalties and lawsuits? Start new corp, transfer assets, declare bankruptcy for the old corporation - industry-wide penalties? Offload that back to the government (that is, society) with lobbying and rescue funds and other business subsidies