Notre Dame is burning.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Couldn't some other countries donate the wood necessary to rebuild the roof if France does not have the requisite number of trees?

Given modern forestry practices, the only oaks likely to be of the requisite size to rebuild the roof exactly as it was will be in protected areas. There also isn't any other tree suited to the task than an oak. Those that produce wood of sufficient strength don't produce beams the size of those that were in Notre Dame.

It would be possible to plant oaks and let them grow to the requisite size and age, but I think we don't want to wait until the 23rd or 24th century to rebuild the roof.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Couldn't some other countries donate the wood necessary to rebuild the roof if France does not have the requisite number of trees?

Given modern forestry practices, the only oaks likely to be of the requisite size to rebuild the roof exactly as it was will be in protected areas. There also isn't any other tree suited to the task than an oak. Those that produce wood of sufficient strength don't produce beams the size of those that were in Notre Dame.

It would be possible to plant oaks and let them grow to the requisite size and age, but I think we don't want to wait until the 23rd or 24th century to rebuild the roof.

Maybe I'm weird, but hearing about this problem over the last couple days just has me daydreaming just how different Europe was back then. Even our movies and TV shows, which have tried to be historically accurate, have probably overlooked things like this. Just imagine a Europe that was covered in these giant trees less than a millennium ago.

Yup. A major reason why Britain turned to coal in the 17th century was that the island was suffering a shortage of charcoal due to overuse of the forests. For most purposes, charcoal is superior to the coal found in Britain.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yup. A major reason why Britain turned to coal in the 17th century was that the island was suffering a shortage of charcoal due to overuse of the forests. For most purposes, charcoal is superior to the coal found in Britain.

No, completely untrue. Old (and self-evidently ridiculous if you know anything about charcoal production) myth.

So the charcoal of Britain was poor quality also, or was the bottleneck in iron and steel production the poor quality of British iron ore? It wasn't until the invention of the blast furnace that British iron was considered even comparable to that of other places in quality.