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Environment & Energy

Warpy

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7. To be fairer, most the deforestation of the US was to feed the industrial revolution

Reply to blue_jay (Reply #6)

Sat Oct 25, 2025, 05:04 PM

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and the second largest cause was clearing the land for agriculture. Farmland given over to tract housing came later when small farms on the edges of cities generated more income as suburbia while larger farms consolidated and mechanized.

Soime reforestation has taken place with the discovery of fossil fuels for industry.

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