Social media algorithms are designed to make you angry, and the old media is only interested in sensation or 'if it bleeds, it leads.' So you might be surprised to find there's lots of good news in the world.
Here's some - globally, more and more land is being rewilded and going back to nature, and the trend looks like it's permanent. Decades-long productivity trends mean more and more food is being produced per square kilometer. With lab-grown meat and vertical farming in our future, these rewilding trends might even accelerate. Even if the human population finally peaks at 9 billion or so in a few decades, it won't reverse the trend.
The rewilding milestone Earth has already passed
Would you like to return to the original point about why the article is 'ridiculous'?
Also, you're posting a 4 year old article about deforestation when the current article is informing us about how reforestation is increasing and actually overtaking deforestation.