Are there more people, or trees?

[tyler_fitz 10+ year member]

On our way to colorado me and my buddies had an argument regarding the population of humans vs. trees. I think theres more trees, hands down.

What do you guys think? Theres about 6.7 billion people, but i can't find how many trees there are...

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[craigzter 10+ year member]

ya, lots of fn trees in colorado, but idk...

i would say trees too

 

[ToyTundra 10+ year member]

your friend's an idiot

 

[Ken448 10+ year member]

gotta be trees. What do you define as a tree? I have prolly 30 diffrent "trees" in my yard, and its a small yard. All of them range from 75 foot tall trees to young 10 footers. And a bunch of little 6 foot tall evergreen lining my fecceline. I guess a person is a person when he or she is born at under 2 ft tall, so all trees count?

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

You and your friend must be stoners.

nG

 

[bad @SS chevy 10+ year member]

your moms a stoner

 

[tyler_fitz 10+ year member]

gotta be trees. What do you define as a tree? I have prolly 30 diffrent "trees" in my yard, and its a small yard. All of them range from 75 foot tall trees to young 10 footers. And a bunch of little 6 foot tall evergreen lining my fecceline. I guess a person is a person when he or she is born at under 2 ft tall, so all trees count?

yes, all trees count, big and small, but bushes don't count. babies and adults count as humans.

You and your friend must be stoners.

nG

yes, yes we are.

 

[maldecido33 10+ year member]

There are more trees in single forest states than people in the world.

 

[tyler_fitz 10+ year member]

i need factual numbers here people, where are your sources?

 

[hank hill]

i need factual numbers here people, where are your sources?

common sense.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

How is this even a debate.

The Amazon rainforest covers 2.7 million square miles. Say the Amazon averages a very conservative 10,000 trees per square mile. That gives you 27,000,000,000 trees - already more than 4x the human population. And you haven't even left South America.

Not to mention the tree density in the Amazon is certainly more than 10K per square mile.

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

the largest organism in the world is here in colorado. giant aspen groves. i'd say trees have us beat.