What do you call it when they chop down North Carolina forests, ship the wood on a diesel powered barge to Europe, then burn it in a power plant? “Green Energy”https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article238395173.html …
Well, the problem is EU government subsidizing EU energy providers who burn wood pellets, and penalizing other forms of energy. On the North Carolina side, you just have rural landowners deciding when and how to sell their timber.
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Until very recently, it was sustainable timber practices - cutting pines on a 30 year cycle and hardwoods on a 60+ year cycle, meaning the forests are on a growth and recovery cycle that can support natural ecology to a reasonable degree.
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That was to produce wood boards to build houses, something wood is very energy and carbon efficient for! Now they’s clearcutting scrub on a much faster cycle that leaves no semblance of nature in place, they’re shipping it to Europe in diesel barges to burn it.
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Well, this is capitalism then. If it's not guided in a sustainable direction, you get those results.
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It’s not capitalism though. That’s my point! Manufacturing and burning wood pellets and clear cutting Longleaf Pine forests to build solar farms would never happen on their own, because they lose money. They only happen because governments subsidize them.
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