ADVANTAGE STEEL SUMMER 2019 | 7 is poised to spread east to the Boreal forest. So much for being renewable! Oh, wait, it gets better. Guess what the proposed use is for much of this beetle-killed wood? Wood pellets for electricity, of course! Which, simply put, is the burning of wood and releasing of CO2. Such an environmental bunch, those wood guys! And don’t get me going about the fact that wood no longer looks like wood. It seems like it is more glue and plastic than it is wood these days. Of course, only environmental glues and plastics. You can eat it just like Agent Orange. And I’m sure glues and plastics don’t burn either, they only char. Well, so much for wood carbon sequestering, boys and girls. Many will buy into this green leafed pile of wood dust, but that is the world we live in at the moment. The world is flat, and wood doesn’t burn. It’s no wonder why our kids are fed up and are camping on the lawns of legislatures around the world. Big business is spinning the truth and the only ones seeing the truth are the ones we are trying to protect from the truth. AS 1 Luyssaert, S, et. al. 2008. “Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks,” Nature doi:10.1038/nature07276. 2 Law, B, et. al. 2018. “Land use strategies to mitigate climate change in carbon dense temperate forests,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1073/ pnas.1720064115. 3 Ingerson, A. 2019, Wood Products and Carbon Storage: Can Increased Production Help Solve the Climate Crisis? Washington, D.C. The Wilderness Society.