off the cuff, recent news about a satellite to count the worlds trees, mentioned current estimates in the trillions, and it would be way low to suggest that we

off the cuff, recent news about a satellite to count the worlds trees, mentioned current estimates in the trillions, and it would be way low to suggest that we have not cut 3/4 of the pre bronze age forests.....read the epic of Gilgamesh, and read about the timbers, still holding up the internal chamber in Jhosers pyramid and all of the storys of what north america looked like pre colinisation, and well..... the story of the world and all of the epic forsests that are gone now.....it's all there if you look(archeology,dendrocronology,general historical acounts,etc), humans cut them down , starting in earnest about 10000 years ago, the earliest wooden structure was(likely) shaped by humanitys ancestors more than 1000000* years ago, we kind of owe the trees a break eh! * yes 6 zeros+, forget the exact reference, but one of the best hominim sites in africa, perhaps oldavi gorge?