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This. 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?

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Sustainable 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.

Timber 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.

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