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0 pointssph2mo ago0 comments

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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dspillett2mo ago

It is actually three treellion.

Even nature likes a terrible pun.

zk02mo ago

tree trillion

IAmBroom2mo ago

Tree fiddy and change.

hnuser1234562mo ago

Well there was probably a lot more a few hundred years ago.

all22mo 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.

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