Ahmed wrote:
It is not nice to present things like this!
Indeed. It was a little "verbal provocation".
I really like the forest and often walk there.
It remains that the surface of the forest increases, that the valleys of Ardèche like the bottoms of Vosges valleys, cleared and cultivated (sometimes in terraces) after the Middle Ages, become again of the forest (of more or less good quality, because more or less managed - there are many private plots which are nothing other than wasteland, but which would have vocation to produce valuable "biomass" if energy becomes a scarce resource) ...
So my precise and non-provocative thought would indeed be to say that there is a more valuable potential. And indeed, I find that the forest, it is immediately the affect which plays a big role and the idea of deforestation which looms (which is a "true" reality in many countries). I think that in Europe we have to qualify a lot (except to want a wild nature as we have not known it for millennia; before the great clearings, France was covered with a climax forest, that's for sure; but there, we will not be many to chuaffer / feed!). Wooded surfaces win, that's clear.