Re:Why wood has gotten so dang expensive
by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:51PM
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That's interesting information.
"there's little financial incentive to make that fight with the regulators"
Global warming will be the incentive in this case. If Empress tree lumber is that much better for carbon sequestration, and from what I've read it is a fantastic sink and converting sequestered carbon in trees into lumber in construction is a decent long-term strategy in this case.
Really my only interest in pushing empress tree lumber here is the carbon sequestration. I'm not some empress tree farmer or some other scam. The other advantage is that empress trees are pretty hardy from a soil/arable land standpoint, leading to more opportunities to sequester carbon in areas that don't easily forest over like, maybe, Texas badlands.
The other angle is that rapidly replenishing lumber sources prevent old growth forest from being destroyed, which ties into biodiversity and habitat destruction.
"there's little financial incentive to make that fight with the regulators"
Global warming will be the incentive in this case. If Empress tree lumber is that much better for carbon sequestration, and from what I've read it is a fantastic sink and converting sequestered carbon in trees into lumber in construction is a decent long-term strategy in this case.
Really my only interest in pushing empress tree lumber here is the carbon sequestration. I'm not some empress tree farmer or some other scam. The other advantage is that empress trees are pretty hardy from a soil/arable land standpoint, leading to more opportunities to sequester carbon in areas that don't easily forest over like, maybe, Texas badlands.
The other angle is that rapidly replenishing lumber sources prevent old growth forest from being destroyed, which ties into biodiversity and habitat destruction.