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Environmental
assert that a major
for the shortage is climate change. Global warming is increasing the
on the sustainability of forests. An increase in the number of wildfires is causing great damage to large
of forest. Many have been completely razed to the
. The warmer weather has also caused a
in the number of
that cause damage to trees and stunt tree growth. Sweden, which supplies almost half of the wood used in the UK, has recorded its
timber stocks for 20 years. A solution the UK has come up with is to plant more trees. It said it is "committed to trebling tree planting
". A builder joked that he didn't have
for those trees to grow.
