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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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Yeah, deforestation is a much smaller impact thing at this point than fossil fuels. Big enough to matter, but only a bit of the overall problem.
Per the IPCC:
And CO2 is big enough that this means that fossil fuels are the biggest piece of the problem: