Carbon sink may turn into carbon source

Aki Kaurismaki, a Finnish film director and Academician of Art is no longer an Academician. You can read the story dated 14.2.2019 on the YLE's website (https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10645998) that Kaurismaki renounced his academic title. Kaurismaki justifies this decission that despite warnings of dozens of experts Finnish government has increased  forest fellings in Finland to a level that, when realized, reduce carbon sinks to one sixth of the current level.

Here in Finland we tend to blame South American countries that are thousands of miles away from Finland for they are destroying rainforests.

We know that rainforests are important carbon sinks. It is also true that South American countries already have destroyed large areas of rainforests. It can even be argued that the destruction of rainforests is turning them into a carbon sources.

 Still I would say that looking for culprits from a distance is an easy way to forget your own responsibilities. Here in Finland our forests are carbon sinks. And mismanaged Finnish forests may turn into carbon sources for the same reason as South American rainforests.