For at least five years, the forestry and timber industries in Central Europe will "struggle" or attempt to "deal with" the damaged timber "created" as a result of prolonged drought. As mentioned, the bulk of such timber volumes have been caused by drought, which in turn has stimulated an extensive infestation of the European spruce bark beetle (for example, in the Czech Republic, such timber amounts to around 250 million cubic metres).
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In recent weeks, both in the Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers, the thesis has been heard once again: “We must act this way, otherwise there will be penalties, infringement procedures, etc.” Often, such a pseudo-argument completely excludes reasonable disputes, discussions, or alternatives, forcing those responsible to make decisions hastily and not always in the interests of Latvia. Why is that?
Old habits are hardening - someone somewhere knows better, let us rely on them
Lack of sufficient capacity or laziness to defend a different point of view
A generation of cabinet officials has been created who are accustomed to accepting rather than delving into matters
This is a serious problem for Latvia for which no solution is being sought. It will probably be all right somehow...
500 million cubic metres of damaged timber "expected" in Central Europe over the next five years
