Guitar Industry Struggles With Hidden Environmental Issues

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The guitar-making industry prizes rare woods from old-growth trees for their acoustic properties. But, using this wood has meant entanglements in scandals over illegal logging, resource scarcity, and conflicts with new regulations that restrict the trade of endangered species of trees. Many rare woods come from areas with legacies of environmental conflict, colonial violence, and dispossession.

 

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The Conversation: Friday essay: the guitar industry’s hidden environmental problem — and the people trying to fix it