| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The eastern USA was deforested as the white man's civilization progressed across the continent.??? The New World tropics have been gradually deforested, largely to produce export crops such as sugar, bananas, beef, coffee, and the trees also became an export crop as they were chopped down.??? A few rich landowners (mainly large corporations today) got the benefits, the people who did the work be
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