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by cbdevidal 153 days ago
My dumb butt thought it was gonna be a list of every tree in the world, all eight gazillion of them
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This is a map of all trees in the Netherlands

https://boomregister.nl/overzichtskaart-van-de-bomen-in-nede...

I loathe these stupid widgets that show a blank map as soon as you zoom out a little (past the 1000m scale in this case). How can you fail so hard at your only job?
Well, there are a lot of trees. If you want you can interpret grey as green as that’s what you would see zoomed out?
That’s cool. My ancestor planted some of them. He was a mayor.
I did a search, there are an estimated 3 trillion trees in the world; somehow that's much fewer than I expected.
It is actually three treellion.

Even nature likes a terrible pun.

tree trillion
Tree fiddy and change.
Well there was probably a lot more a few hundred years ago.
It's actually the opposite, I think. Because of how industrialized the lumber/paper industries have gotten, stewardship of forests has improved over time. This includes replanting in harvested areas.