Burning firewood for syrup is carbon neutral because the carbon cycles back

Evidence

Bart sits by the bottling tank and chimes in: “We should save the oil for where we’ve got to have it. Wood can do this job better—and besides, it’s carbon neutral. The carbon we release from burning wood for syrup came from the trees that took it in, in the first place. It will go right back to them, with no net increase.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 607

Categorization

• QUESTION: Carbon neutrality of wood burning is contested in real accounting of methane and time horizons; worth chasing the scientific caveats.