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Re:The Return of Nature: How Technology Liberates the Enviro... by brohee on Friday May 15, 2015 @10:16AM (#9550697)
The author focuses on land use, and forest area is actually growing in Asia.

http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C56/forests_2012

The bad players are actually South America and Africa wrt deforestation, Oceania is about neutral and forest growing everywhere else.

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Re:The Return of Nature: How Technology Liberates the Enviro... by xerula on Friday May 15, 2015 @12:07PM (#9551498)
Total forest cover is a crude statistic. Primary forests in Asia, where the majority of biodiversity resides, continue to be felled at alarming rates.
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