If I read this correctly: No, forests are not suddenly emitting carbon. People are just felling enough trees and treating them badly enough, that their forests are now dying faster than they are regrowing

Shouldn’t this carbon be released when the tree eventually dies and decomposes? I’d expect it to be carbon neutral over its lifespan?

By 2025, the population is estimated at roughly ~1.53 billion.

That means the continent has seen an increase of abou 450-500 million people over merely 15 years! (~44% increase!)

No wonder the forests are disappearing. Without strict birth control and population planning, things will continue to become worse.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314546723_Populatio...

PS: Projected population is over 2.5 billion by 2050!