Real answer is probably that they’d be used in addition to trees, designed to fit in places unsuitable for a tree.

Hard not to at 99, prospects really drop off after average life expectancy

We need to NOT accept that manufacturing is behind us. NEVER accept failure.

How is manufacturing being behind us failure, exactly? Does an engineer fail when they pay to eat at a restaurant? The service industry jobs that make up 3/4 of our GDP pay better than manufacturing jobs. Tariffs are like adding a restaurant tax to incentivize lawyers and doctors and engineers to cook at home.

Transitioning from low paying physical work to high paying mental work is success, not failure.

That and also rampant corruption. You can only do so much within the system when the system is rotten.