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by sph 153 days ago
I did a search, there are an estimated 3 trillion trees in the world; somehow that's much fewer than I expected.
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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.