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Unlike the US, Canadian logging companies pay a stumpage fee which goes into planting new trees so there's no clear cutting. Even the article says the forests aren't being completed reduced so the concern seems unwarranted.
Not saying they can't do a better job but the article reads like a hit piece.
That would make sense if you were talking about a stable existing system of managed timberlands. When you convert virgin forest to managed timberlands, you are on net dumping a whole lot of CO2 into the atmosphere. And Canada is still doing that at scale.
No. As long as the timber isn't being burned, the CO2 is still in the wood.
The rain forest is being clear-cut for farming and those trees won't even come back.
The US doesn't even have to replant trees so they can potentially lose forests forever.
Then consider how much drier and hotter it's getting which causes forest fires to burn out of control. That's happening everywhere so CO2 is being released em masse.
But yeah, let's focus on how Canada's timber industry isn't perfect.
Hardly.
A big chunk ends up in slash piles because it's not marketable timber. Maybe 30% of the embedded carbon.
Another big chunk ends up as short-lifetime paper products, where it ends up back in the atmosphere.
More ends up as wood pellets to be burned.
Some residual amount ends up as long-lifetime products which keep the carbon out of the atmosphere.
Expansion of the area which is used for timber needs to end in Canada like it does everywhere else.
You can argue all you want but it seems you don't know much about Canada's lumber industry and I don't have the time or need to argue with a right-fighter.
I'm very confused by this statement; it sounds like you don't know the first thing how trees get used.