This has been going on in richer, developed, countries for about a century (and it is a macro issue if there ever was one):
It is happening globally, on net. The focus on burning and clearing in South America, Africa, and southeast Asia is not a bad thing, but it is rarely tempered by this simple fact.
And do note that may people will complain about the quality of the recovering trees and forests. That is not tempered by any evidence that it is worse than what poor people are taking away in the tropics.
FWIW: The area that I grew up in the far outer suburbs of Buffalo, NY, is now almost completely forested. It was farms a century ago. My first apartment was an old farm house, where the farm had been taken over by trees decades before. My second apartment was a new building on a property that had been a farm, and which had returned to woodland. They later cleared much of that, put in a subdivision … and planted a ton more trees.
This infographic is from BeautifulNewsDaily which maintains links to all the source data used. And I don’t think anyone would call it a Republican-oriented site.
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