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Ever wonder if wood is really a renewable resource? Once you see a 4th generation forest, you start to realize we might be running pretty short. This seems to
by acyou 1y ago
Ever wonder if wood is really a renewable resource? Once you see a 4th generation forest, you start to realize we might be running pretty short.
This seems to bounce back and forth, for awhile it was save the trees, now it's cut down trees to save the world apparently?
- SchemaLoad 1y agoThe wood they are using comes from tree farming, not deforestation. It's pretty low density fast growing wood that's about as renewable as it gets. Worlds better than plastic at the least.
- decimalenough 1y agoThe wood used for disposable utensils comes from farmed, very fast growing trees like bamboo and balsa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochroma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochroma
- acyou 1y agoAs I was saying, https://stopthesethings.com/2021/12/18/billions-of-wind-turbine-blades-built-with-balsa-wood-stripped-from-amazons-forests/ https://stopthesethings.com/2021/12/18/billions-of-wind-turb...
- decimalenough 1y agoAh yes, brought to you by "Stop These Things: The Truth About the Great Wind Power Fraud": The great wind and solar scam was founded on lies, built on myth and runs on subsidies. But with Donald J Trump in the White House the scale of the fraud is finally being revealed.
- its-summertime 1y agoI didn't read fully because I felt like I was reading something unhinged, but this does not seem to be about farmed wood at all.