And yet, deforestation rates have declined significantly over the past several decades globally despite added several billion people, while Europe and the US ha

And yet, deforestation rates have declined significantly over the past several decades globally despite added several billion people, while Europe and the US have been reforesting. From the article: "As we explore in more detail in our related article, countries tend to follow a predictable development in forest cover, a U-shaped curve.5 They lose forests as populations grow and demand for agricultural land and fuel increases, but eventually they reach the so-called ‘forest transition point’ where they begin to regrow more forests than they lose."