Knowing all that we know…

Knowing all that we know regarding climate change, carbon and our future ... and cutting down trees to create more carbon is your answer? Honestly?
One of the main products of Ontario’s forest biomass industry is wood pellets. As if biomass is an industry to help in climate change, it is not. Wood pellets are marketed as a clean energy alternative, but we know that wood pellets are dirtier than coal at the smokestack and is by no means an excuse to cut down huge swaths of boreal forest during a climate crisis, a crisis helped by leaving boreal forests alone.
Increasing deforestation as a climate solution is not viable. It is the opposite of viable and accelerates climate change. 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 this growing industry.
The growing industry of what? Forest destruction for private profit. Deforestation for profit may be called a "growing industry" as it has been in decline and hopefully reversed as of late but apparently being reworked, rebranded and restarted regardless of the very real damage it does. Cutting down boreal forests is the opposite of climate solutions and quite possibly against the Paris Climate accord.
The Ontario government claims that expanding the wood pellet industry will provide alternative employment for fossil fuel workers, but these would be jobs in an industry that dumps more carbon into the atmosphere than what it's replacing. It's a completely false narrative that has nothing to do with fossil fuel workers needs and more to do with a big industry that is known for destroying forests.
We were not born yesterday and Canada seems to do more harm than good when it comes to every facet of climate change. Shame on Ontario for telling anyone wood pellets are carbon solution to anything and that their job creation depends on cutting down large swaths of boreal forests.
These practices have to end.
Thank you.