[pessimizer]

Burning wood is ultimately carbon neutral, deforestation is the problem.

[reitanqild]

And here we need to be careful: around here there is a major problem with trees filling up what was once farmland.

No problem you may say but it means less local produce and more import, both import of meat as well as animal food.

[pjc50]

Where's that? How productive/marginal was the farmland?