Global Forest Change

For life to survive on this planet, we need healthy oceans and healthy forests.

Here is a map which shows how forests are changing:

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/14/scientists-googlecreatehighresmapofchangesinworldsforests.html

And here's a report on concerns about Brazil's forests:

http://thebricspost.com/brazil-reports-surge-in-amazon-deforestation/

Too many people, too few trees. Is there anything other than a cataclysm which can alter this trend?

By the way, did you notice this sentence near the end of the Brazilian report?

Brazil is the biggest corn exporter in the world.

The US has lost its edge. The only thing we excel at these days is borrowing money to buy junk we don't manufacture and which will soon wind up in landfills.