> Actually, it was done as a renewable resource - wood was grown
> specifically for charcoal production, and you could estimate future
> charcoal production by the amount of land dedicated to this.

good point, except that Buckingham, IIRC (not a given as it is several years
since I read this) as Royal Forrester denuded about 35% of a royal forest
(the New Forest ?? - which IIRC was not new planting: it was newly
'nationalised') for his own profit - and still he spent / gave away more
than he earnt.

BTW - The Spy subskill Bribe should not use the word 'gift'. Gifting only
becomes a bribe when you do not agree with someone else getting the gift.

> It became a
> bottleneck in steel production until the invention of coke. (The black
> kind, not the brown or white kind.)
yep.

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