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by EForEndeavour 1533 days ago
> Or how another authority could cut millions of trees solely because of the fact that it lies on his/her territory and that it's none of our business, triggering irreversible climate change

Even worse, authorities across the world are collectively cutting down about 15 billion trees per year, split roughly evenly across permanent deforestation, shifting agriculture (conversion of forest for farming), and logging: https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation#not-all-forest-loss...