>Only if the person actually plants a tree for every fire they burn. But wouldn't a tree be more likely to grow, and in the long run the expected number of tre

>Only if the person actually plants a tree for every fire they burn. But wouldn't a tree be more likely to grow, and in the long run the expected number of trees in a forest be unaffected by the felling of any given tree? (the same can't necessarily be said for the felling of hundreds of trees of course).