Furniture is carbon capture
There are many others on this forum with far more knowledge of forestry and milling than my very limited amount (such as Greg Ward, John G, Bob Whitworth et al) but I would make the following observations:
- Much of the commercial furniture is made from Crapiata, which is more or less a plantation industry (although forests have been cleared, and will continue to be cleared in the future for them to grow). I'm not sure how many rotations can be grown in the one place, but it's certainly more than one.
- As Greg points out, many farms that are no longer used for their original purpose are being "recycled" into plantation forests of furniture grade timber (i.e. proper furniture). Again, I don't know how many rotations can be grown. There would be a vast amount of hectares of now disused or under-used farms that could be converted to timber plantations. We need to get a bit smarter about that land.
- Much of the fruits of small miller's work becomes furniture, although I suppose many of the trees that they mill are on an opportunistic basis (trees that have fallen over, or have to be removed for whatever reason). This would be a drop in the bucket of carbon capture.
So, leaving out the question of whether or not some of the forests should be unlocked (because there are many more considerations before knocking over virgin forest), any plantation grown timber results in more carbon capture. As Greg points out, our time frame is a mere blip on the scale of ecology, although in some areas we seem to be outpacing it (climate change and other pollution, resource usage).
Surely the idea of carbon capture would please the OP's taunter.
There may be holes in my argument, so feel free to point them out.