Prior to European colonization: 1,023,000,000 acres
Today: 766,000,000 acres
If that is too complicated for you to process, please take a look at the graphics on the page. Btw I don't do religion. Let's do facts instead.
"We chopped down most of the forests in the US [1] to make farmland. Literally. My home state of Indiana was _literally_ solid hardwood forest 250 years ago. Take a look at it on Google maps sometime."
So 25%
That's factually wrong in so many ways especially seen in the light of your entire comment to me.
https://www.quora.com/Are-there-more-trees-now-than-there-we...
"There is just no accurate estimate of the number of trees 100 years ago, relative to now." --Jeanne Paquette, Mineralogist who also teaches some paleontology at McGill University (1991-present)
Maybe you should pick a topic with more hard data to argue about. Or is that too complicated for you? Nah, you just have an agenda: we're all gonna die unless we do what you say! Who cares about the truth! Truth must serve, not be served!