The world lost more than one football pitch of forest every second in 2017, according to new data from a global satellite survey, adding up to an area equivalent to the whole of Italy over the year.
The scale of tree destruction, much of it done illegally, poses a grave threat to tackling both climate change and the massive global decline in wildlife. The loss in 2017 recorded by Global Forest Watch was 29.4m hectares, the second highest recorded since the monitoring began in 2001.
All that wood burnt or consumed will result in co2 back into that system at some point in the chain, with no new growth.
If you can conclude that electric cars are going to save the worlds CO2 (despite not being significantly greener cradle to grave), then I can't help you lateral thinking.
