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> You're the one saying that they didn't manage properly the forests, I don't know if they did or not... It's literally a quote from Ben Franklin? They cut do
by carapace 4y ago
> You're the one saying that they didn't manage properly the forests, I don't know if they did or not...
It's literally a quote from Ben Franklin? They cut down all the firewood for "near 100 Miles to some towns".
> when the population increase at some point forests cannot provide enough wood for everybody
Yes, of course, but not by 1744.
- yywwbbn 4y ago> Yes, of course, but not by 1744. There are more forests now in France and some other places in western Europe than there were in the 13th century.
- carapace 4y agoYes, but we're talking about North America, so..? The point isn't that coppicing et. al. produces infinite wood, it's that it's a better way to manage forests than just chopping down all the fucking trees, eh? Coal has never been the solution to an ecological problem.