03-01-2021, 03:19 PM
(03-01-2021, 02:04 PM)Mike Costigan Wrote: On the contrary, young trees are grown for paper as a crop; reduce paper usage and we will have fewer trees absorbing that dreadful carbon dioxide (without which the planet cannot survive).
The green-ness of very quick growing timber is not great. It needs to develop and remain as biomass - i.e. complex high forests - to really contribute. It's like electric cars. Really? Yes - agreed, it gets rid of pollutants from cities, but battery production.... worse than our obsession with making complex plastics.
It's all marketing bullsh*t - everyone is skirting around "offsetting carbon" to maximise business, but the only way we are really going to survive is by travelling less, doing less AND buying less stuff, continuing to use and repair... AND being better at recycling the rest. (Ironicially what older, sensible people do anyway?). Malthus sadly has it though - it's only pestilence that is going to sort us out as humans are largely unable to plan all the necessary without the consequent brutal rejigging of "the economy".