because consumers are greedy and don't know whats good for our planet; also so they can start construction on the land they clear(for more money)
the answer is that over 34 million chrismas trees are cut down each year.
1.5 Million trees are cut down everyday for the making of cigarettes. That's over 500 Million trees a year! Shocking, but paper uses more.
25 millions of trees are cut in india
52,560,000 million trees get cut down a year
about 4 million in the USA
about 34 million about 34 million
To make paper
In 1999 it was estimated roughly 14,000,000 trees were cut down to make 10 Billion paper bags for the United States alone.
Approximately 15 trees are cut down each day to produce one ton of newsprint paper, which is used for newspapers. This translates to about 30 million trees cut down annually for newspaper production worldwide.
500 million
about80 thousand million
25-35 million trees