Tbh headlines like these do more damage to the climate change and ecological preservation conversation because they can be used to intentionally mislead what’s happening in the world.
Why should we let you guess?
What do any of us gain by reading the opinion of someone who admits to being ignorant and who isn't willing to change that by reading TFA?
Carbon sequestration? A giant redwood stores more carbon than a fir.
Healthy ecosystems? Different trees fit into different roles in a healthy forest.
The loss of biodiversity? Once a forest dies, a new forest somewhere else doesn't bring back the lost biodiversity.
In theory, Carbon sequestration is the closest to "a tree is a tree", you can plant large amounts of fast growing trees can capture more carbon over time, but that's specifying the later tree, which then matters.
Fast growth commercial forests have high density because the individual trees are relatively small with a vastly smaller amount of root mass.
Unfortunately when you cut down an old forest and convert it into a young one the old forests root mass rots thus releasing a great deal of stored carbon.
Can't have your cake and eat it too. Either they're all the same or they're not.