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Trees and Carpentry are better than Concrete IMO.
Commercial tree growing isn't always the best thing for the environment.
Yes I think you're right on both counts. Concrete, cement, bricks etc have a huge carbon footprint. Lots of heat required. Same with steel, glass, other metals. Mining also Very environmentally destructive.
However, pine forests create a monoculture where nothing else can grow.
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Yup, plantations are plantations, whether they be wheat, pine, bananas....
I suspect that 7.9 billion people cannot exist in perfect balance with nature. Or at least that it requires a genius, hitherto unseen setup like some really clever mass permaculture. But we simply need too many resources. And when we grow/produce/extract those resources I think we're often choosing "least terrible" rather than "most sustainable". It's damaging because of scale.
The global overpopulation feels a bit like trying to throw a 400 person rave in a village tea shop. You cannot expect it to hold up to the abuse.
Ndeipi
Since the mid 1980's say.
Either way it doesn't affect my central points which are:
Trees and Carpentry are better than Concrete IMO.
Commercial tree growing isn't always the best thing for the environment.