JAPAN'S UNIQUE TREE GROWING TECHNIQUE THAT COULD HELP SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS

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BY ALICE BENNETT/OCT. 15, 2022 5:00 PM EDT

As wildfires rage and icecaps melt, concerns that the planet's temperature is spinning wildly out of control continue to grow. Replanting the world's shrinking forests is one possible solution to the crisis — and MIT estimates that our combined reforestation efforts could seal away 70 billion tons of carbon over the next 30 years. But how realistic is this optimistic vision? There is no way around the fact that globally we use an enormous amount of timber — and many environmentalists and even the U.N. recommend investing in products made from wood as an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic (via Reuters).

But never fear — there are solutions available. An ancient forestry technique from Japan may allow us to have our trees and make furniture out of them too: Daisugi a tree-pruning method that can produce lumber without the need to fell trees.

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