What part of my statement was blatantly wrong?

That the west logged off all of their forests long ago - also implying that it was a precondition to their status.

Except that instead of forests instead of being cumulatively wiped away has grown as marginal agricultural land has been left utterly unused. That becomes blatantly wrong like saying Europe's population is lower now than it was in the past because of two world wars and the Spanish Flu. While the terrible things did happen the end status did not.

In all of the forestry cases they realized the major problems that would ensue if they ran out and shifted to sustainable models with replanting instead of virgin land. In Germany's case they started shockingly early in the 1500s after encountering wood shortages.