By: Jay Ryan

Jay Ryan
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:39:15 +0000

That title is misleading. It's not that deforestation itself has any less of an effect, it's that a) how the land is deforested, b) what the wood is used for, and c) what the land is used for afterwards all play into whether land use helps or hurts our net carbon budget. It makes sense that using wood for products and then planting trees to pull more carbon out of the air (and make more wood) is going to have a different effect than slash and burn deforestation and turning it into cattle-grazing land.