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How rapidly are our rainforests diminishing, and if they keep up at the same rate when will they be gone?


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My best estimate based on the data I have seen is that the rainforests may last anywhere between twenty and five billion years. At any given place they could disappear much sooner - the problem is more severe on islands than it is on continents.

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