For example, why do poor humans in places like Africa and Latin America cut down forests?

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Even as people gasp for air in Moscow, Russia's authorities have begun to cut down the forests that surround the city, ostensibly to make space for a badly needed road from Moscow to St Petersburg.

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But one-fifth of all greenhouse gases comes from forests that are cut down and burned to make way for crops or pasture.

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The economic argument goes that you make it more financially appealing to countries not to allow their forests to be cut down.

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" Girls were also urged to apply to natural resources the principles of conservation practiced at home, recognizing that "in this United States of ours we have cut down too many trees and our forests are fast following the buffalo.

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Forests, when they are not being cut down by expanding communities, are becoming thicker and are expanding their ranges.

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Fortunately, vast pine forests in Wisconsin and Michigan could be cut and shipped down Lake Michigan to Chicago to support this westward expansion.

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