They are aware. From the article: At the current rate of deforestation, all of Earth’s forests would disappear in 100 to 200 years. However, the study predicts

They are aware. From the article: At the current rate of deforestation, all of Earth’s forests would disappear in 100 to 200 years. However, the study predicts that the scarcity of forests will start to cause problems long before all of the planet’s trees are gone. “Clearly it is unrealistic to imagine that the human society would start to be affected by the deforestation only when the last tree would be cut down,” they write. “The progressive degradation of the environment due to deforestation would heavily affect human society and consequently the human collapse would start much earlier.” > It is important to recognize where we are consuming resources too destructively It's not only about resources. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01157-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01157-x Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers https://phys.org/news/2023-06-ecological-doom-loops-ecosystem-collapses-sooner.html https://phys.org/news/2023-06-ecological-doom-loops-ecosyste... Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4 Humans are driving one million species to extinction - Landmark UN-backed report finds that agriculture is one of the biggest threats to Earth’s ecosystems.