A new study shows that cutting down trees for paper, furniture, and fuel emits three times more carbon than flying.

The paper is here

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    41 year ago

    Burning wood is still better than burning coal either way, since the carbon in wood originally came from the atmosphere.

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      31 year ago

      And if that wood is something like a hybrid poplar, it’s carbon within our lifespan (as opposed to old growth)

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      31 year ago

      Kinda sorta. The conversion of forest land into commerical timberland on net moves carbon from the trees into the atmosphere. There’s also a ton of fraud in that space around emissions claims.