Thursday, March 23, 2023

Deforesting To Save The Planet? Europe's Forests Shrinking As Wood Used For "Green" Energy

 There is a movement afoot to stop all logging- and this bullshit about how using wood for energy is helping to deforest the planet.

The REALITY is that using wood for energy is a great thing, It is a renewable resource- when done right.

The people who do forestry are not whack job climatistas- they're mostly good old boys who live in rural areas, vote conservative, have and love guns, drive ICE pickup trucks- wouldn't be caught dead with an EV. In the lead in this ignorant battle to end wood for energy is Mary Booth: https://www.

As for the supposed deforestation in the American southeast due to biomass- the amount of wood going to biomass is a trivial percent- I think it's 3%. Most of the wood goes into other markets- for lumber, for pulp, for local firewood use, etc.

There is far more wood in those forests than there was a generation ago- so any fool who thinks it's deforestation should screw your head on correctly.

Forestry folks producing wood for energy HATE the wind and solar idiots.

To practice forestry- so humans can have a great, renewable wood resource, which has a low carbon footprint, we have "Weed trees" which must be removed and for some of those trees, the best market is for energy.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/23/deforesting-to-save-the-planet-europes-forests-shrinking-as-wood-used-for-green-energy/

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