as much as the geek in me is fascinated by the awesome machine right now, these images make me very sad indeed

Trees are a renewable resource, there's nothing wrong with logging if it's done responsibly. And clearcutting is in some ways better than select-cutting, depending on location, type of growth, etc...

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Wow, a very impressive machine.
I agree with BillO for once. Also cutting down trees can form a temporary CO2 sink, as long as the trees aren't burnt up or rot away, the CO2 stays stored. New CO2 can then be extracted from the atmosphere from the old plot, if trees are allowed to grow again.

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that doesn't look very good for the trees.

oh, and farming trees is a very inefficient/destructive way of fixing CO2. Photosynthetic plankton are much better at it. Besides, that wood will only hold it's CO2 for a finite time.. eventually it will burn or decompose. Ultimately, "let's cut down the trees to stop global warming" doesn't stop global warming, and leaves horribly disturbed forests, devoid of the usual diversity that we value in forests.
Here's a neat paper on using farmed plankton to fix CO2. I'm not advocating it; it's just a neat paper: link

But we need lumber. There isn't a real alternative that I'm aware of. And people don't usually buy lumber to burn it or use it in a manner where it is going to decompose anytime soon. Isn't it usually used to make durable goods?

We just need to responsible in cutting it.

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