The Forest Farm: Clothing the Earth with Trees

There is a scene from the 1984 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol“ in which Scrooge is talking to Bob Cratchit about the use of clothing instead of coal to keep warm. “Garments were invented by the human race as protection against the cold. Once purchased, they may be used indefinitely for the purpose for which they were intended. Coal burns. Coal is momentary, coal is expensive“. Now, all symbolism of his greed aside, it is actually a great point