Ok?
But you can't build a house out of hemp...
I see where this is going, but its poorly organized and not sourced.
"Creates 1/10 of the pollution" per what? Compared to the same biomass of tree? Or the same amount of usable paper?
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Seems pretty obvious this post is about paper and not building houses... maybe it’s not so obvious
I agree, but it's a very nice wood table, and you have to do math to figure out exactly how many trees are used to make paper... And the lines aren't 1 for 1 comparisons, so it's a bit vague.
I guess if the point is "hey, it would be better for the environment to use hemp based paper instead of tree based paper" well, I don't have enough knowledge to support or refute that argument, but it's poorly presented here.
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”But you can't build a house out of hemp...” Hempcrete. It's both durable and sustainable.
What are the bullet points for hardiness of the plant (water requirements, pest control/pesticide, soil quality after X years). How about large scale production? Is it easier to harvest and process? What is done with the by-product of hemp production? How about habitat? Do hemp fields support dynamic ecosystems with bio diversity? Do birds nest in hemp? You can't take complex problems and whittle them down to a few bullet points. I'm not arguing against the points, but no one should be swayed by information that can only be sourced back to pro-hemp industries.
The only reason why I can think of people being vehemently pro-hemp is because of weed. Any non-weed person would recognize that wood and hemp each have their pros and cons, and in a better world each would be used to its maximum capacity within sustainable margins. But the only reason to move completely to hemp is because of weed.
With regards to the first "fact" surely it depends on what type of tree, fir trees grow ridiculously fast, about a foot a year whereas something like oak takes much longer.
Exactly... they aren't cutting old growth forests for paper. They plant a specific kind of tree, so actually they're creating forests and replacing them.
But you can't build a house out of hemp...
I see where this is going, but its poorly organized and not sourced.
"Creates 1/10 of the pollution" per what? Compared to the same biomass of tree? Or the same amount of usable paper?
I guess if the point is "hey, it would be better for the environment to use hemp based paper instead of tree based paper" well, I don't have enough knowledge to support or refute that argument, but it's poorly presented here.
Hemp) no climbing involved