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      • atomwaffle [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I'm just gonna say it, we shouldn't be using wood as a building material, people should live in concrete or brick apartments, not single or family homes, that's just wasteful. We should view wood like how we view coal, sure some people need it but we gotta phase it out. Keep the trees in the ground. Laugh at everyone complaining about the price.

        • regul [any]
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          4 years ago

          Using wood as a building material coupled with sustainable lumber practices is vastly better for the environment even if concrete or brick were carbon neutral (which they very much are not). Wood houses are carbon sequestration as much as a forest is, except if the wood was harvested sustainably, the trees used to make the lumber for the house have now been replaced/replanted and are sequestering more carbon. A wood house can be carbon negative. A concrete house cannot.

          So much land has already been clear-cut, the main thing that needs to be prevented is any more cutting in old-growth forests. Logging can and should continue in already-disturbed/farmed areas.