• Madison420@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re aware Europe has the oldest timber framed buildings and the us took their building lead from old Europe.

    You act like Europe decided stone was the better solution when that’s just not true, Europe by in large deforested itself into leaving stone as the only affordable solution left and only then switched off timber framed homes.

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        1 year ago

        Correct, they import timber now.

        I’m surprised there’s not more academic papers about the effect of shipbuilding on global forests. Farming is probably a bigger factor but shipbuilding is responsible for a weirdly huge amount of old growth.