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		ChuckNorris89 on Aug 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave... >Many countries in Europe, for example, have already destroyed majority of their forests. You have a source for that? Last I recall, countries like Finland have more trees now than ever before.

frankbreetz on Aug 22, 2019 | [–]

They replaced forest that were destroyed. Planting new forest is great,but not as great if we had the old forest were still there. Once you lose biodiversity, it is gone forever.

lolc on Aug 23, 2019 | [–]

Around where I live, a good part of the village names refer to setting trees on fire.

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