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> It’s the same thing humans have done for a hundred thousand years: sit around a campfire telling ghost stories.

The same thing, but now with 7 billion+ people. It's a lot of deforestation just to feed all these campfires.

Except we aren't running out of forests any time soon [1] and they're actually growing back to levels we haven't seen in decades.

Monocultures are not forests.

reforestation is booming, not to discount how devastated green heavy regions like the amazon are