How does deforestation relate to Europe?

Answer 1

As Europe's economy has changed into a mostly high tech or industrial economy, forests ere in the way of constructing new manufacturing plants. Also, Europe's population has greatly increased over the years. This caused the expansion of cities at the expense of forests. There are still many forests in Europe, that there is no doubt, however, to a large degree, European deforestation has been the result of cutting down forests to make way for new economies and larger populations.