Comment by tinco
6 days ago
Planks and beams rot substantially slower than they take to grow if built correctly. My house was cheap labor housing in the 1910's so no particularly fancy practice and only the exposed wood has been partly replaced. I've been told some of the beams were even recycled from Holland's old wooden shipping fleet.
That's still a temporary and limited solution. What we're pulling up now is far more and mostly won't be sequestered for countless thousands of years unless we put insane effort into making it so. Also everything about those houses has an insane footprint as of now. The steel, insulation, glass, etc It's not like you're going to outbuild climate change even if you tried.