It is perplexing that we are…

It is perplexing that we are considering burning wood as a climate solution. The climate crisis is a function of high levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which include carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide is what is released when biomass is burned; when we allow biomass (such as wood) to break down naturally in the environment, that carbon content is stored in the soil for reincorporation into the life cycles of the ecosystem; we should preserve existing woodlands and forests, and focus resources on rewilding additional areas so as to further enhance these natural carbon storage cycles instead of deliberately establishing any sort of policy that would encourage burning biomass and thereby releasing even more carbon into the atmosphere. We are facing an existential threat to our collective survival; this is not the place to be looking for profitable economic opportunities. While the government and industry claim that only waste wood is used to manufacture wood pellets, more whole trees from primary, boreal forests are being logged to meet the demands of the growing biomass pellet industry. The sciene indicates that radical shifts in our earth's climate systems are already underway; we can, however, still mitigate the worst impacts of this unfolding tragedy by abadonning delusional initiatives such as this one.