From the hottest global average day, to the highest average sea surface temperature and the lowest Antarctic sea ice extent - here’s why so many climate records are breaking, all at once.
Certain types of pollutants have decreased, CO2 for example hasn’t decreased and won’t as long as logging continues. Trees store vast quantities of CO2 and when cut down it is released. Vehicles are releasing less CO2, industry is releasing less CO2, but there are more of them so we are not seeing the offset. What it come down to is that we need to avoid those trying to distract us from the end game which is reducing pollutants through better techniques and practices. Driving vehicles that don’t use carbon emissions is a great example of this. Building Nuclear Power Plants is another.
Certain types of pollutants have decreased, CO2 for example hasn’t decreased and won’t as long as logging continues. Trees store vast quantities of CO2 and when cut down it is released. Vehicles are releasing less CO2, industry is releasing less CO2, but there are more of them so we are not seeing the offset. What it come down to is that we need to avoid those trying to distract us from the end game which is reducing pollutants through better techniques and practices. Driving vehicles that don’t use carbon emissions is a great example of this. Building Nuclear Power Plants is another.
Co2 is released when those trees rot. If they’re cut down for construction material then they don’t release their carbon it’s actually stored away.
They cut off a lot of the wood from what I have observed.
In Romania, in 2018, the industrial roundwood production reached 10.436 million m3, out of which, 8.436 million m3 were converted into sawnwood, veneer, and parquet, and 1.09 million m3 was converted into wood-based panels (NSI Romania 2018). This equated to a wood utilization efficiency of 91%, which is close to the value indicated at a global level by FAO.
It’s South America that has my concern.
That’s fair, hopefully bolsonaro out and Silva back will lead to more sustainable logging practices in the vast majority if the Amazon.