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In understanding the carbon neutrality of this system, you have to ask the question: what would happen if those thinnings were not commercially used by a consumer such as Drax? One possibility is of course that the farmer would say, “Well, I’m no longer making enough money out of trees, so I’m going to get rid of forest and go into beef production”. So, in order to calculate the consequences for the global carbon budget, you have to make assumptions about the counterfactual. The situation is complicated, and that is all I really wanted to say: we should not jump to simplistic conclusions.