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As consumers of Wooden furniture and so much new housing construction happening around the work, we all are to be blamed too. We need to invent alternate to woo
by zerop 4y ago
As consumers of Wooden furniture and so much new housing construction happening around the work, we all are to be blamed too. We need to invent alternate to wooden furniture.
- smileysteve 4y agoBamboo, Hemp, and post consumer paper /plastic/fiberglass composite.
- mschuster91 4y agoThe majority of the Brazilian rainforest isn't even being razed for furniture wood. It's simply burned down to provide for one season of feeding cows for meat or to plant soy to feed the cows. Then it's gone. Forever.
- lvass 4y ago>Forever No. In fact, evidence suggests most of the rainforest was in fact laid by humans. It's artificially mostly made of trees with edible produce like açaí and brazil nut.
- Sporktacular 4y agoYes, forever. And no it wasn't. The rainforest has existed for tens of millions of years (and has species much) older than humans have inhabited South America. And while they shaped it, there is NO way suggests we could just regrow it, even if we could organise the manpower and political will. When the forest loses the capacity to create clouds, it is game over. It will never be the same again, and that's just one of many of non-linear effects at work.
- makerofspoons 4y agoLogging is actually only a tiny fraction of why the Amazon is being cleared: https://www.internetgeography.net/what-are-the-causes-of-deforestation-in-the-amazon/ https://www.internetgeography.net/what-are-the-causes-of-def... It's mostly being used for agriculture.
- Sharlin 4y agoTimber is a red herring. Beef is the real problem.
- vixen99 4y agoSo if it isn't plastic made from fossil fuels, what do you suggest? Apparently the global human mass excluding humans themselves who comprise 0.01% of the global biomass but including our constructions in concrete, asphalt, aggregates, bricks, plastic & glass exceeded the global biomass back in 2020. The same report claims that this anthropogenic mass doubles every 20 years. I wonder what the thermal capacity of all this is let alone other manifest concerns. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3010-5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3010-5
- pastor_bob 4y agoMost American wooden furniture is Domestic hardwood
- frozenlettuce 4y agoI'm Brazilian and I have a blast watching Property Brothers. "Oh, and I placed brazilian hardwood for the whole living room floor" - that is fancy in Canada, but here I would be arrested if I did that. Guess that I should lower my head even more for not being self-hating enough.
- is_true 4y agoActually wooden furniture is a great way to sequester carbon