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Foreign Intelligence Brief #353: How Many Trees Cut A Year For Wooden Chopsticks?

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The China Environmental Protection Foundation set this up to heighten awareness of the fact that over 25 million trees need to be felled every year to produce 45 billion pairs of disposable wooden chopsticks. At that rate, China’s forests will disappear in 20 years. In other news, China still has forests.

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