In the long term this is going to be amazing for the Canadian lumber industry.
Also we can go complain to the WTO they’re dumping and subsidizing, which is their complaint against Canada (we’re not, we just have different laws).
Terrible for the planet though.
I read about a Japanese method of harvesting trees without killing them, which yielded stronger straighter wood. I wish we’d adapt that and run healthy and fully renewable lumber farms. But capitalism doesn’t have the patience for that, so instead we clear cut then plant a monoculture of saplings with no ecosystem support as an offset.
In the long term this is going to be amazing for the Canadian lumber industry.
Also we can go complain to the WTO they’re dumping and subsidizing, which is their complaint against Canada (we’re not, we just have different laws).
Terrible for the planet though.
I read about a Japanese method of harvesting trees without killing them, which yielded stronger straighter wood. I wish we’d adapt that and run healthy and fully renewable lumber farms. But capitalism doesn’t have the patience for that, so instead we clear cut then plant a monoculture of saplings with no ecosystem support as an offset.