I was sitting in a doctors waiting room the other day and I happened to pick up a National Geographic magazine and on the cover was the photograph of a great open ploughed paddock and right in the middle was a couple of tall rainforest trees... right out in the middle of what had once been thick dense wet rainforest and I began to think "This is madness".
Inside the magazine was a map of all the forest that had already been cut down to be used for plantations of some kind or other or just for cow paddocks.
It seemed to be as much as a 10th or more of existing Amazon basin rainforest that had already gone to the chop.
When does it end?
What happens if they allow it all to go? Will it regenerate?
Does the earth continue to breathe? At what level does it continue to breathe?
Does the world have plans to stop this craziness?

Perhaps the West shouldn't have cut down all it's forests in Australia and Europe, if it has a problem with Brazil.

Its not just the Amazon, but also in Africa, Indonesia, PNG etc.

I guess if we keep adding 80 million more people a year to the planet, we'll
keep chopping down the forest that is left. According to old
mother nature, eventually the wheels will fall off the proverbial
cart.

You'll have what you call judgement day and the biologists will
tell you that they warned you all along, that ever more people
was not sustainable, so don't be surprised.

I won't be here, having been turned into worm food by then :(
The good news is that I won't feel a thing :)

Youre right Steel. They chopped it down and kept chopping.
I suspect timber companies are chopping areas in Australia today that are protected by they simply dont care and Canberra is asleep on the subject.
I reckon its a good time right now for the federal government to re-plant the Great Dividing Range. We have lots of young people sitting around...dole folk...doing little and a high juvenile crime rate. I cant see why they cant be used to re-afforest the nation.

Perhaps we are unable to stop the 3rd worlders from killing the trees in time Yabby?
The UN is under control of China (and her buddy Russia) and China wants all of the worlds materials for her expansion-towards-global control.
Without an active successful UN the world could one day simply croak. The 3rd worlders have to be stopped.

Yes Gibo lets starve them to death!
That timber is headed sometimes our way.
If not the timber the smoke from the fires.
We buy the products they grow.
We often fell trees to build homes then sit in those homes complaining about the third worlds crimes.
I battle to find the masses of youth on the dole, so do firms looking for workers.
But if we plant two trees for every one we harvest ten for a time to cover years of over harvesting, stop using rain forest wood.
And just maybe help those dreadful third worlders[mostly Christians mate] feed them selves we may have the right to tell them how to live in their own country's.

How do you figure it Belly.
The 3rd worlders have the remaining forests... and that is the very last of them.
A helping hand from the rich nations might help stop the chopping... but it has to stop somewhere.
Here too. Much of the old trees have gone to cutters who only wanted the money they could get out of it. The timber workers dont really care. They just want jobs kept even if the last tree falls in their lifetime.

sad fact is Gibo they are burning the Amazon forest not harvesting much of it but clearing land to grow food.

Im sure thats not the real truth belly. Most of the trees seem to go to be converted to dollars.
Anything for money.
Chop it down and it gets used for formwork for concrete in asia etc. then thrown away.
The percentage cleared for food would be small.
I would like to see a report by world government on what they intend to do to stop the chopping.