Timber has recently been enthroned as the material of salvation. In competitions, in policy papers, and on glossy renderings it appears as the renewable cure to the excesses of concrete and steel. It has become the emblem of an environmental conscience—moralized, celebrated, and, increasingly, unquestioned. Yet this reverence rests on a fragile paradox: the more …
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