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As more of a virtue signaling cry than a full-scale solution to anthropogenic climate change, people call out for more tree-planting. In elementary school we learned trees absorb carbon dioxide, removing and storing the CO2, while releasing oxygen. While I cannot disagree that tree planting is beneficial in numerous ways, it certainly is not the resolve if you believe human CO2 emissions contribute to a changing climate.
However, with the alarm of fossil fuel shortages, especially liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia, people in Germany are acquiring wood like it was the ‘the days of yore’. Vladimir Putin has reduced the amount of LNG by 60%, claiming sanctions from the west have caused his nation’s inability to perform regular maintenance on their Nord Stream pipelines.
Speculation, of course is that this is a squeeze play, however, much of European Union governance believes that Russia may completely halt the LNG during the winter. As a result, the Germans and people elsewhere in the Union are cutting down the forests of Europe in pursuit of cold-weather heat.
The Europeans had been advised in the past that reliance on Russian oil was a suicidal risk, but continued to move forward with unreliable renewable energy systems while prohibiting fracking and other fossil fuels ventures. While they have re-opened a few shuttered coal plants, these sources are certainly far from creating a supply of reasonable or responsible heating fuel.
Who would’ve thought that the eco-political belief in anthropogenic climate change would actually result in fewer trees. The online No Tricks Zone magazine covers this in more detail here.