In other news, the fact that we buy so much lumber from countries like Canada has become a national security threat, says the White House. Translation: We're going to start cutting down a lot more trees here in the US of A!
@bedast @briankrebs given that Canadian lumber is owned by the crown and managed as a crown corporation, I dont really trust the alternative American capitalism/exceptionalism to manage its forests from a business perspective.
We need forest conservations and instead we have “drill baby drill” in the office.
TLDR Canadians understand lumber as a renewable resource. Americans tend to maximize extraction for the benefit of the current generation over all else (cough boomers)