What is it about?
This manuscript describes a global sustainability crisis, highlighting how deforestation, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification are driving unprecedented forest loss, particularly across tropical regions. It details the rapid collapse of biodiversity, threatening ecosystems and the livelihoods of over a billion people, while substantially contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. The note further examines how climate-driven wildfires, mining, and armed conflicts exacerbate tree-cover loss, illustrating the complex interplay of human activity and environmental degradation.
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Why is it important?
This article is of paramount urgency for global sustainability as it exposes the unprecedented scale and velocity of contemporary deforestation, which now imperils biodiversity, climate stability, and human livelihoods simultaneously. By documenting the intertwined effects of agricultural expansion, industrial extraction, mining, wildfires, and armed conflict, it highlights the multifaceted drivers pushing ecosystems to a breaking point. The analysis underscores the economic and health costs of forest loss, translating ecological degradation into tangible human consequences, thereby compelling immediate policy attention. Furthermore, it reveals systemic hypocrisy in global climate governance, exemplified by COP30’s Amazon tree-felling, which erodes public trust and undermines international climate commitments. By presenting robust, data-driven evidence across tropical and temperate regions, the study identifies the most critical hotspots and sectors responsible for global forest decline. Consequently, this work provides an indispensable foundation for urgent, coordinated global action to safeguard remaining forests and secure planetary resilience.
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Our forests—the silent custodians of life—are disappearing at an unprecedented pace, driven by global warming, human greed, and relentless land-use change, as though the Earth itself were mourning its own destruction. Humanity drifts helplessly within a tragic cycle of deforestation, blind to the irreplaceable gifts forests have nurtured for millennia, while mounting evidence reveals a sorrowful tale of global green betrayal, in which lofty promises of sustainability crumble beneath relentless tree loss.
Mr. Abdul Kader Mohiuddin
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This page is a summary of: Global green betrayal: excuses are plenty, forests empty, and truth overlooked, Biodiversity International Journal, January 2025, MedCrave Group LLC,
DOI: 10.15406/bij.2025.08.00219.
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