I see your point, but as far as I'm concerned every one of those things could be improved if made not out wood, but Carbon Fiber, Metal, Plastic, bricks and materials like that...
maybe I have to think outside the box, but somehow in the past I have used wooden pencils, now I use a plastic pen style pencil, in the past all the houses were wooden, but I didn't see a wooden skyscraper yet... and so on...the only upside of wooden stuff I can imagine right now is the looks of the faces of the environmentalists