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Re:The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy by Fr3ck on Saturday September 17, 2022 @08:54PM (#32883267)
> Europe is the second smallest continent in the world. It has roughly the area of the United States. Despite that, Europe has the highest forest coverage of all the continents.

I don't believe that is correct. Unless you are counting all of Russia. https://ourworldindata.org/forest-area

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Re:The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy by Aerroon on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:54AM (#32884795)
Ah, you are correct and I was wrong. I had looked it up, but didn't realize that the multiple different sources I looked at all seemed to count the entirety of Russia.

In hindsight, it should've been obvious that Europe (~10 million sqkm) couldn't have 1 billion hectares of forest coverage.

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Re:The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy by AnnikaL on Sunday September 18, 2022 @12:38AM (#32884471)
That source does show that Europe has the highest forest coverage, although the weird remark about Russia does imply that Asian Russia is counted. Moreover, North America, which I believe is quite forested, is totally absent from the chart.
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