Tens of thousands of trees have disappeared from parks and woodlands this winter across Greece, authorities said, in a worsening problem that has had tragic consequences as the crisis-hit country’s impoverished residents, too broke to pay for electricity or fuel, turn to fireplaces and wood stoves for heat.
Wood was humanity’s primary source of energy for thousands of years, and still is an critical source of energy in “developing” nations. Expect wood, and hence deforestation stories, to regain its importance in the global energy economy. And start planting trees.