So no opposition expected from the wood industry. Pity, here in Sweden the wood industry appear to have figured out that not only do they stand to loose from climate, they also stand to gain from forest-products being used instead of oil and coal.

Sweden had a lot of clear-cutting and decreasing forests in the 19th century, when timber companies bought forests for a song and then cut it down and moved on. This lead among other things to the conservation movement and national parks being established. Unless I am misinformed the rules are now working so that the forests has increased, in turn leading to more timber then a 100 years ago. There are from time to time scandals with crooks buying, clear-cutting and not replanting. When the law catches up with them the company is looted and the crooks gone. But these scandals are minor and both the large owners of forest - the government, the church, local government as well as forest companies (SCA, Stora Enso, etc) - and most small owners (mostly family-owned) seems to manage their forests well.

With owning forest comes also hunting rights, which socially is a big deal in rural communities. So it is a large part of the rural way of life.

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