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Actually,
The number of trees in America has been growing.
Since the 1940's.

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There are More Trees in America Than 100 Years Ago

http://www.wideopenspaces.com/trees-america-100-years-ago/

May 8, 2015
It's easy to be cynical about the state of the environment, especially when bombarded daily with stories about global warming, smog-filled cities, and forests leveled for the sake of profit. But it turns out that last one isn't a bad as you might think, at least here at home. Despite its rapid expansion, the United States has more trees standing than it did a century ago, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The number of trees can be credited to a successful sustainable harvesting program, which has ensured that forest growth has exceeded the number of trees that have been cut down since the 1940s. America currently has the fourth largest collection of forests in the world, comprising eight percent of the world's forests, or about 300 million hectares. Only the Russian Federation, Brazil, and Canada have more forest.
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(This article does continue. Zim.)

And :
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How Many Trees In The U.S.?

http://greenblizzard.com/2015/09/28/how-many-trees-in-the-u-s/

The U.S. has 319 million people as of 2014, but only 228 billion trees. That’s 716 trees per person – one of the lowest. Brazil has 301 billion trees (1,494 per person), Canada has 318 billion (8,953 per person), and China has only 139 billion (102 trees per person).

Among highly populous countries, India (population, 1.267 billion) has a tree population of only 35 billion, a meager 28 trees per person.

The nation with the single largest number of trees was Russia, with 641 billion citizens (or political prisoners!), and 4,461 trees per person and is helped by the vastness of Siberia’s boreal forests.
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Hmmmm.
Looks like China and India both need to plant more trees.
Zim.




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Trump Announces U.S. Will Join ‘One Trillion Trees’ Initiative
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Wed, 22 Jan 20 7:52 AM 		Msg. 49582 of 62138

January 21, 2020

Trump Announces U.S. Will Join ‘One Trillion Trees’ Initiative

by Nate Church
Breitbart.com


President Donald Trump surprised the international ecological community with a pledge to join the One Trillion Trees initiative to fight climate change.

In 2019’s World Economic Forum, ecologist Dr. Thomas Crowther posited that planting 1.2 trillion trees could compensate for global CO2 emissions. Now, the U.S. will officially join the effort to preserve the planet. “We’re committed to conserving the majesty of God’s creation and the natural beauty of our world,” Trump said.

Trump called himself “a very big believer in the environment,” after recently explaining to reporters that he no longer believes climate change is a hoax. “Nothing’s a hoax about that. It’s a very serious subject,” he told reporters two weeks ago. “I want clean air; I want clean water. I want the cleanest air with the cleanest water. The environment’s very important to me.”

This is a very different tone than the POTUS struck during his controversial decision to withdraw from the international Paris Climate Accord, which he criticized as being a ploy to siphon jobs and money from Americans.

“No responsible leader can put the workers — and the people — of their country at this debilitating and tremendous disadvantage,” said Trump at the time, adding that the Accord “hamstrings the United States, while empowering some of the world’s top polluting countries.”

These recent remarks came on the back of a Thursday announcement of changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that would exempt agencies from considering climate change among the environmental impacts of infrastructure projects — a practice that Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said had “paralyzed commonsense decision making for a generation.”

Trump was not specific about how the U.S. would participate in the initiative, simply stating that we “will continue to show strong leadership in restoring, growing and better managing our trees and our forests.”

http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/21/trump-announces-u-s-will-join-one-trillion-trees-initiative/

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