Do you think the environmentalists will allow the trees to be used for something useful? With the CO2 hysteria, perhaps the left and their rat allies can be persuaded to harvest the infested trees. Given past restrictions, I am not optimistic.
Unfortunately, I can't disagree. One would hope that the continuing track record of negative facts about knee-jerk "eco" policies would eventually get through to those people who are "not" knee-jerk eco-freaks.
I mean, if the trees are dead, why not cut them down and use them, and plant new resistant trees in their place?? A perfectly sane, rational policy. To instead allow the dead trees to stand until, inevitably, they catch fire is simply stupid.