Pine trees should have never been allowed

[C_T_Russell]

Already watched that in the weekend.
At least they tried to highlight the problem but some interviewed still feel pines have their place. Only If they get cut down and replanted do they have a place IMHO, none of this plant and walk away nonsense.

Doesn't really matter what trees are planted as carbon sinks, we need to stop burning stuff and particularly fuels that are derived from vegetation that captured carbon via photosynthesis millions of years ago. We are currently releasing millions of years worth of carbon sequestration over the course of a few decades and our environment has no ability to absorb that load without the risk of making our planet unable to support life in its present forms.

Planting a few trees is just rearranging deckchairs on a sinking ship. We need to address the primary cause not piss around applying a few band aids.

If you believe in the climate change narrative or not, one thing we can all agree on, is no amount of tree planting we can do is going to get us out of this.
We can't plant trees fast enough as the rate we are burning fossil fuels, how many hectares of pines equates to a container ship I wonder?
How many trees worth of carbon would it take to fill your car?
Millions of tonnes being burned every minute globally.
Then we still have the best part of 200 years of catch up.
I dont think we would even have enough land to plant that much carbon, unless we can find a way to plant all of Africa.
I'm all for planting native trees and restoring habitats for wildlife and giving us something for future generations,  that's far more valuable IMHO.

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You cannot plant pines and walk away. They, like any tree require ongoing nurturing, pruning and maintenance to be suitable for later use.

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Well that's what I thought too, but walk away pime forests are a thing, I first learned about it on an episode on Sunday earlier this year.
Alot of it happening around gisborne.
Sure, they might give the trees a pruning, but they won't be the best for timber, they are planting the things much higher density.
Seems silly not to use for timber, at least you can replant and capture even more carbon.

Even more silly how NZ is happy to ship timber globally, burning fossil fuel and then re-importing the finished products from China because we don't have any more mills to process the stuff, do many have closed. Probably impacts our price of timber significantly too.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/anthony-...T4PDW3TVM/

More evidence the pines are not going to work:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/4761...ons-report

Kazakhstan is the only other country doing what we do.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike...emissions/