Trees
Most trees around the world are located in the Russian taiga. It is only fitting since Russia is the largest country by far, although lots of trees around the world are being cut down at an alarming rate so it wouldn't be surprising to see the tree population of Russia go down. Trees are a renewable resource- by the planting of more trees even though it takes a few years for trees to get big we still have plenty of them around.
Wood is made of tiny fibers called cellulose and the natural glue that holds them together is called lignin. When wood is turned into paper, heat and chemicals dissolve the lignin and the cellulose fibers come out. Byproducts of this process are used in asphalt, paint, chewing gum, detergents and turpentine. Cellulose is used for more than just paper. It is used for dinnerware including melamine in it, toilet seats, tool handles and cellophane. You can also use it to produce helmets, toothbrushes and electrical outlets. Some other you can make from it is nail polish, rocket fuel and industrial explosives. Wood pulping by-products are used for lots of weird things like cleaning stuff, deodorants, hair spray, and even fake vanilla flavorings! We obtain all the wood by cutting down trees with machines, chainsaws, and sometimes axes!
Deforestation is the clearing Earth's forests in a big way, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Deforestation has many negative effects on the environment. The biggest impact is a loss of habitat for millions of species. Seventy percent of Earth's land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. According to scientists we shouldn't run out of trees anytime soon, also since wood is a natural resource the use of wood products has no impact on the environment.
As more and more people populate the world the demand for tree products will be higher than it is today but there are lots of alternatives for it, the biggest one is paper. If schools completely make the switch to online learning the need for paper will drastically decrease, right now much of the paper in the world is used by schools so they need to cut down the use of it to conserve trees.
The biggest way we can limit the consumption of paper and trees is to recycle everything made out of paper, if we reuse everything that we throw way the demand for paper would drastically decrease. Paper has only been made out of trees for the past 150 years, before that it was made out of various plants so we could also make at least some of the paper with plants to stop deforestation. Agricultural residue is the fastest growing sector of the paper industry around the world, and many countries use it but in the US it only makes up 1 percent of our paper. If we switch to all online communication trees could be spared all over the world!