“**Over the last 10,000 years we’ve cut down one-third of the world’s forest**, mostly to grow food on expanding farmland. Half of this was in the last century. ([Location 671](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=671))” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[statistics]], [[climate-change]], [[deforrestation]] **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]