Chris, this is so important to be understood. Decimating existing ecosystems for tree plantations is absurd. It's all part of corporate greenwashing to say, "Hey, look what we did," and BS legislation to encourage this. Apart from replacing grasslands with forests, it's equally absurd from the 6th extinction standpoint. As a person whose best days were spent hiking real nature, why I would want to walk in neatly aligned plantations of trees? Nothing to see. It's planet robbing and soul robbing of all the people connected to those lands, and similar to other disturbingly sanctioned situations all over the globe.
Besides the reduction of biodiversity from planting monocultures of trees for the small amount of carbon offsets, they are planting nonnative and invasive trees, such as eucalypti. And replacing grasslands with trees not only destroys viable ecosystems, destroys the carbon sequestration of the grasslands, many of which store more carbon than forests.
Chris, this is so important to be understood. Decimating existing ecosystems for tree plantations is absurd. It's all part of corporate greenwashing to say, "Hey, look what we did," and BS legislation to encourage this. Apart from replacing grasslands with forests, it's equally absurd from the 6th extinction standpoint. As a person whose best days were spent hiking real nature, why I would want to walk in neatly aligned plantations of trees? Nothing to see. It's planet robbing and soul robbing of all the people connected to those lands, and similar to other disturbingly sanctioned situations all over the globe.
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There is also an increasing trend of wood biomass, and Indonesia has a big plan to develop it as Energy Wood Plantation https://trendasia.org/en/the-looming-deforestation-threat-from-energy-wood-plantation/ which is going to be burn together with coal in coal power plants (co-firing) or full firing of wood based biomass/wood pellet
Besides the reduction of biodiversity from planting monocultures of trees for the small amount of carbon offsets, they are planting nonnative and invasive trees, such as eucalypti. And replacing grasslands with trees not only destroys viable ecosystems, destroys the carbon sequestration of the grasslands, many of which store more carbon than forests.