Environmental Edge-Wood. Naturally Better.mov

[ckontos]

If you don't cut down the tree to start with it will become senescent and eventually emit carbon back into the atmosphere. Storing that wood as furniture, flooring or structural timber creates a carbon sink while the regeneration process continues locking up more carbon from the atmosphere. Or you could purchase a steel or aluminum product that is completely unsustainable and emits severe amounts of carbon during its manufacture.

[newt1610]

What?? If you don't cut the tree down to start with, it will continue to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. There's no difference between having carbon stored in a living tree or a table except that the table doesn't continue absorbing carbon.  What a ridiculous joke of an ad!

[MrWonderfeel]

This is simplistic peudo-environmentalism... most logging claims to be 'sustainable' yet is devestating to our biodiversity, and when logging includes a burn cycle a heck of a lot of of carbon is roasted out of the soil too, meaning much more greenhouse pollution, current logging in Australia is anything but sustainable and our post-logging burns are severe, so it would've been great to have had a look at some of the research from ANU before circulating this !!