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Timber harvest doesn't work as an alternative to forest fires. This is timber industry propaganda. It produces shallow ecosystems and monoculture forests. Fores
by idiotsecant 2y ago
Timber harvest doesn't work as an alternative to forest fires. This is timber industry propaganda. It produces shallow ecosystems and monoculture forests. Forest fires work just fine, and we continue to have them every year whether we do controlled burns or not. Many species rely on the natural fire cycle and we shouldn't try to prevent fires through timber harvest, it just makes fires and erosion and biodiversity worse.
- no_wizard 2y agoThis. Don’t buy into the propaganda. Honestly I’d love to see the world move away from timber to an easier to manage renewable resource. Whatever happened to those homes made out of 100% recycled material?
- idiotsecant 2y agoTimber is great as a building material, so long as we source it responsibly, with an eye towards sustainable harvest and minimal ecological impact. It can be done, it's just not as cheap as letting the timber companies do whatever they want.
- hjgjhyuhy 2y agoSustainable forestry is possible, and using wood harvested from such forests in buildings is very climate friendly. It’s one of the best ways to capture carbon for a long time. But of course it requires regulation by effective government, which USA no longer has.