How many trees are there on Earth again?
There are approximately 3 TRILLION TREES IN THE WORLD.
A number that looks even more impressive when it’s written out: 3,000,000,000,000.
That’s about 390 trees per person.
But what’s more astonishing is that we didn’t have this estimate until recently. In fact, scientists used to believe that the number of worldwide trees was a whole lot lower (something like 400 Billion).
No one bothered to do the dirty work of tree counting until recently.
While 3 trillion trees sound like an astronomical number, it’s almost half as much as what used to exist. Humankind managed to chop down about 1.5 trillion trees.
According to one recent study published in “Science”, the most effective way to fight climate change is reforestation. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) claims the earth can tolerate a third more forests without affecting cities or agricultural
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