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> and the size of the forests are mindbogglingly vast.

The size of the forests isn't really relevant; compared to lumber demand, they're mostly insignificant. Humans have never had a problem wiping out local forests.

What matters is how much wood a forest can produce per year, not how much has accumulated over the course of the past.



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