A Thought On Environmentalism: Aren’t Trees A Renewable Natural Resource?
Environmentalists have been telling us for years that we need to move away from things like oil toward “renewable natural resources” like biofuels. But these same environmentalists also routinely attack loggers for cutting down trees to make houses, paper, etc. But here’s the thing: Aren’t trees a renewable resource? Does wood, and wood products like paper, not biodegrade?
This makes me wonder about biofuels. The environmentalists hate the logging industry which grows trees to cut them down for lumber, etc., but they love the biofuel industry…which grows crops to harvest them for fuel.
Why is it terrible to cut down trees for lumber and paper, but not terrible to try and force the country to switch to a fuel the production of which would require vast swaths of our existing farm land plus, undoubtedly, a significant amount of new land?
Anyone else seeing a disconnect here?
