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Since 1750, the total forested area on Earth has declined by more than twenty percent.
Today there are more trees on farms than in wild forests.
Since 1750, total cropland has grown by nearly 500 percent.
Since 1750, people have released the quantities of fossil carbon that the planet took hundreds of millions of years to store away.
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