We would run out of trees for newsprint long before we were done. This would make a fine opportunity for the fledgling hemp industry (in the USA that is). Hemp is a plant we could turn to 100% for fuel, paper, clothing, food, medicines, plastics and building products. Yield per acre is 4 times what it is for trees. Hemp was the cash crop of American farmers since the Colonial Era. Hemp was grown for the war effort in WWII. Henry Ford built a car with plastic made from Hemp and ran it on Hemp gasoline. The Hemp plastic he made was 10 times STRONGER THAN STEEL!!! (I wonder how that might work for BODY ARMOR?)

Hemp is grown as an industrial CASH CROP in the UK, Canada and Austrailia. Only in ass backwards America. . .