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["scrooge McDuck" <declan@planetmail.net>]

The debate on the carbon content of one tree is a bit moot N light of other greenhouse gases released on an industrial scale, Siberian Methane, the combined farts of the world's billions of beef cattle, etc.
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Declan Moriarty
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On 28/07/2016, 01:41 scott@permaculture.org wrote:

The tree continues to grow in the forest and sequesters more carbon, the board in your frame house sequesters the amount of carbon that it held when removed from the forest and doesn't accumulate any more.


> -------Original Message-------
> From: Georg Parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Earthships
> Sent: Jul 27 '16 15:07
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> Thanks Lawrence and Scott for this dialogue. Valuable.
>
> However, one question, Scott:
>
>
> > **Whenever possible eliminate using forest products in construction.  The wood is much better used as a carbon sink.
>
> To my understanding wood IS a carbon sink - and if it sits in my house for 200+ years this is just as fine as sitting (and maybe falling over and rotting) in the forest. What is it I do not see?
>
> Georg
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