Finland has shown us the way

Thanks Anne Mackenzie and Jonathan Holmes for this post https://bbc.in/3DUtmbp

I loved this bit: "...the Finns' use of such methods ...was a response to a humanitarian crisis.... there was a desperate shortage of housing, so Puutalo Oy (Timber Houses Ltd) was formed to get building.

Traditional building methods, materials and levels of labour weren't going to work. So architects – including Toivo J?ntti, designer of the 1928 Helsinki Olympic stadium – and industrialists joined forces to create a new model of factory-built housing that modernised the country's construction industry.

However, what started as a solution to a domestic refugee crisis evolved into a major export, and during the post-war years more than 95% of the units were sent abroad. Finland, which was in dire need of raw materials and machinery, swapped its houses with other nations. In return, it got coal, iron, steel and tractors from the UK; beef, lard, butter and cheese from Denmark; wine and silk from France; Dutch potatoes, chemicals and textiles; and grapes and oranges from Israel.?

How about we stop sending logs to China and send them houses instead (once we have built enough to address our own humanitarian crisis? https://bit.ly/3kWtGh7