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<\/b>For the planet<\/span><\/b><\/h1><\/div>\n\n
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We sacrifice the long-term benefits of standing trees for short-term gain.<\/h2>\n

Trees are disappearing at an alarming rate. Between 1990 and 2016, the world lost 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) of forest,\u00a0according to the World Bank<\/a>\u2014an area larger than South Africa.<\/p>\n

Since humans started cutting down forests,\u00a046 percent of trees have been felled, according to a 2015 study in the journal Nature. About\u00a017 percent of the Amazonian rain forest has been\u00a0destroyed\u00a0over the past 50 years, and losses recently\u00a0have been on the rise.<\/p>\n

We need trees for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that they absorb not only the carbon dioxide that we exhale, but also the heat-trapping greenhouse gases\u00a0that human activities emit. As those gases enter the atmosphere,\u00a0global warming\u00a0increases, a trend scientists now prefer to call climate change.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t

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