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2023-07-04 13:18:27 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 814EAF4C69EE1C6AD0A7AC9A1FB11F7EDEDA4BBC2B9B9D69AC4F2739CDDD6914
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Deforestation as a crisis is not brainwashing. A football field per second is indeed incorrect– it is approximately one per 5 seconds now: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-football-pitch-tropical-forest-lost.html Satellites have provided precise visibility for many decades: "17% of tropical moist forests have disappeared since 1990" (as of 2019) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe1603
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