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It paints a picture, but not an accurate one.
I'm from Latvia, and it shipped $200 million worth of timber to the U.S.(2022)—selling to each other to extract profit at the expense of biodiversity.

Logging is just one of the five main drivers of deforestation:

Urban Development

Logging and Timber Harvesting

Wildfires

Pests and Diseases

Agricultural Expansion


All combined, these have caused a 75% loss in biodiversity over the last 200 years.

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I’m not speaking about the timber industry overall — just the wood energy industry.

Thank you for clarifying, then i think you are talking about 15% of the same problem.