It's literally a quote from Ben Franklin? They cut down all the firewood for "near 100 Miles to some towns".
> when the population increase at some point forests cannot provide enough wood for everybody
Yes, of course, but not by 1744.
There are more forests now in France and some other places in western Europe than there were in the 13th century.
The point isn't that coppicing et. al. produces infinite wood, it's that it's a better way to manage forests than just chopping down all the fucking trees, eh?
Coal has never been the solution to an ecological problem.
It's literally a quote from Ben Franklin? They cut down all the firewood for "near 100 Miles to some towns".
> when the population increase at some point forests cannot provide enough wood for everybody
Yes, of course, but not by 1744.