There are few wrong assumptions with your statement: 1) The wood the house is built with will not be there forever, some day the house will be torn down and th

There are few wrong assumptions with your statement: 1) The wood the house is built with will not be there forever, some day the house will be torn down and the wood burned or rotten 2) Cutting down trees and planting new ones is not a good way of carbon sequestration. Otherwise, why not cut down all trees and just plant new ones? Bam, carbon negative, climate problem solved. People need to understand that trees should not be seen as a renewable resource in the context of climate change. Not for building, not for burning as fuel.