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Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is? (news.mongabay.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Depends on what would be there if those trees weren't grown/cut for wood. Old-growth forest stores more carbon than young forest. This perhaps would have been a more important point for the author to have made.

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