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0 pointssph5mo 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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dspillett5mo ago· 2 in thread

It is actually three treellion.

Even nature likes a terrible pun.

zk05mo ago

tree trillion

IAmBroom5mo ago

Tree fiddy and change.

hnuser1234565mo ago· 1 in thread

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

all25mo 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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