I don’t think the article is arguing that the wood banks should just go away, but that they shouldn’t be necessary, and their expansion is a symptom of the failing system.
It’s the “orphan-crushing machine” again. People band together to do something good that needs to be done because of systemic failures, and most reporting on it focuses on the good done instead of talking about fixing the systemic failures. This article is just the response to that, a different way of looking at the same event.
I don’t think the article is arguing that the wood banks should just go away, but that they shouldn’t be necessary, and their expansion is a symptom of the failing system.
It’s the “orphan-crushing machine” again. People band together to do something good that needs to be done because of systemic failures, and most reporting on it focuses on the good done instead of talking about fixing the systemic failures. This article is just the response to that, a different way of looking at the same event.