At the beginning of the twenty-first century, industrial plantations of eucalyptus and pine produce a third of the wood harvested in the world from barely 3 per cent of the forested area.The irony lies in the fact that industrial forestry upholds the concept of wood as a renewable resource, yet it increasingly relies on non-renewable agricultural practices and materials, such as oil, natural gas and phosphorus

— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 122)