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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

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JUNE 29, 2022

logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. Genna Martin / Seattlepi.com via Getty images.

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APRIL 18, 2021

Burning wood pellets has been found to be more carbon-intensive than fossil fuels in most circumstances, while experts doubt that trees planted in their place can re-absorb the carbon dioxide emitted, on a meaningful timescale. Greenwashing Files. We need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

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