WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing

Re:WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon... by shafyy on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:33AM (#32751162)

> Commercial tree farms exist to grow trees. If they weren't growing trees for consumption, something else would be done with that land

Yes, for example let the natural vegetation take over, increase biodiversity, and sequester more carbon thanks to the increased biodiversity and better soil than fucking tree farms.

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Re:WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon... by quixoticelixer- on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:09PM (#32757696)

- Plantations aren't worse for the soil than native vegetation most of the time. Sometimes they can be better for it.

- A lot of the time plantations are planted on less productive farmland. - Not all plantations will naturally regenerate quickly back to native vegetation.

- Those trees were planted for a reason and a lot of plantations are planted on degraded farmland or scrubland.

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