yet despite your utterly powerless beautiful sentiments the reality is we decimate trillions of trees out of pure greed.

the dustbowl was created because of speculation on wheat prices, wheat prices quadrupled so people destroyed entire states and turned them into dirt fields to grow wheat. then wheat prices collapsed and they left the fields to rot

just look at us from google earth. see those tiny green areas in the midwest? those are the trees.

60,000 square miles of trees are destroyed to grow corn for ethanol. gives your car less gas mileage, less power. damages the engine. that's an area 200 miles by 300 miles.