Comment by margalabargala

The burning is still part of the short term carbon cycle, and biomass is still renewable.

Boreal forests in particular lose carbon sequestration capacity as they age, and from a carbon perspective cutting them down for lumber is a good thing. Wood pellets are generally from the waste material, not wood that could be used as lumber for houses or whatever.

You can certainly make other arguments in favor of not cutting down old growth forests, and certainly transport using fossil fuels is bad, but "I don't like how they go about it and also they release emissions that I don't care to understand how it fits into the carbon cycle" doesn't mean they "aren't renewable".

The point you could effectively make if you so chose would be "renewable energy sources are not cut and dry always a good thing".