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The sad thing is there’s no good reason not to have 100 year wood readily available. Suppose you have 100 acres. Every year you harvest one, replant it, and mo
by User23 3y ago
The sad thing is there’s no good reason not to have 100 year wood readily available.
Suppose you have 100 acres. Every year you harvest one, replant it, and move on to the next. In a century you’ll have an annual harvest of excellent wood. But what will happen instead is whoever ends up with the land will clear cut it, take the big payday, and plant fast growing junk if they replant at all.
- ejb999 3y agoworse yet, there is a very vocal set of people (many on HN) that want to force you to develop your land in order to build more housing by imposing unaffordable land taxes on undeveloped land - very short sighted. for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276883
- bluGill 3y agoIf you have land in a city then you are wasting it by not developing it, and that harms the city. If you have rural land though there isn't any reason not to grow something for long term.
- ipqk 3y agoYeah, so short-sighted that we now live in the worst housing crisis in history, with rampant homelessness due to lack of housing and people barely being able to afford to live.