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To be spending a lot of time working in the rainforest in Peru where logging (legal and illegal) is everywhere, you can't trace properly. Certificates are easy to forge, the entire pipeline is pen and paper. How can you tell once the legal wood and the illegal wood are in a container which is which? You can't.

So many people here are outraged, how many of you are supporting on the ground teams protecting rainforests?

If you care, do your research, support causes like https://www.junglekeepers.org (disclaimer here; that is the one I know, work for and support) and don't use exotic woods.

👤thomasstephan🕑2y🔼0🗨️0

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I'm always torn between building things out of wood vs. other materials.

I hate cutting down trees. But at the same time wood seems like a way to sequester carbon from the atmosphere into things that will last a very, very long time. It seems like I could build carbon-negative furniture out of wood, as opposed to carbon-positive furniture out of other materials. As long as those trees are re-planted. I want assurance that when I buy lumber it's regenerative.

👤dheera🕑2y🔼0🗨️0

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Unfortunately, their sites are not very friendly to privacy oriented browsers.
👤earth2jason🕑2y🔼0🗨️0

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I wonder if there's a way to tag trees to stop this. Like, spray the protected wood with some harmless-but-detectable dose of a radioisotope so you can tell which wood is which.
👤finite_depth🕑2y🔼0🗨️0