You’re not going to believe this but Michael Moore’s film, Planet of the Humans, does a real good job of showing the idiocy of burning trees instead of fossil fuels. His example is we are chopping down forests in North Carolina and then shipping pellets to England to power plants. Insanity.
Yes! You beat me to it. What started out as a way to make use of scrap wood and sawdust has turned into forest harvesting in NC.
But since I know the area well, I must say that the scrub forests of eastern NC, a mixture of pine and other soft woods, aren’t useful for much else. If you replant pines it goes back within 25-30 years.