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> What other countries do with their trees is not my problem.

You may mean that what you don't want to worry about it, which is a reasonable position as you can't worry about everything, but it certainly is your problem in the sense that it affects you; it's not like the effects of deforestation respect national borders.






The effects of deforestation most certainly are contained locally

That sounds like claiming the effect of scarring on the lungs is local to the scarred area and has no other effect on the body at all.

It's also contrary to the statements made by NASA in their studies and monitoring of deforestation about the world.

Net loss of forest is net loss of carbon capture by forests.




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