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stenops t1_iy2e0fw wrote

I don't understand why big forestry businesses like Weyerhauser and others don't make GMO trees that grow faster with more lignin. The technology to do this already exists. We could have forests grow 4 times faster, it would benefit every industry that relies on wood products, AND it would capture carbon from the atmosphere much faster.

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sssasenhora t1_iy3ff2y wrote

Politics, that's why. There is a lot of technology out there to diminish environmental impacts by a LOT. Years old technology. Like managing beef cattle farms the right way here in Brazil you could use 10 times less area. The area we use today for beef cattle is the size of Amazon and Acre together (Brazilian states).

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T-A-Wycoff OP t1_iy2wcio wrote

They actually do look up hybrid poplar and arbavorial green giant

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