One of the largest…

One of the largest contributors to climate change is deforestation. Look at an aerial photograph of cultivated land, where forests would slowly take up carbon dioxide and bury it into new biomass and consequently form more soil. This carbon sink is lost with cultivated land. This carbon sink is lost with reducing forests for any reason, whether it be grey development or agricultural land. Why would we allow for loss of forest to generate biomass? The release of carbon captured in this biomass and the instantaneous loss of capacity to capture more carbon by destroying existing sinks would be devastating. Increasing forest biomass harvest amounts at all is a bad plan for reducing green house gas emissions, because it will reduce the ability of forest to capture carbon in the first place. Jobs in forestry can be directed to other sustainable industries such as geothermal heating and cooling in local communities or small scale manufacturing of specialized equipment for this industry.