There are many other forests that need to be reestablished or protected in addition to the Amazon - the Amazon jungle is just the best known.

Back in the 1960s and 70s when books like Population Bomb came out there was a lot of discussion - even though from what I read these days, Erlich got a lot of it wrong. An interesting book from the same general period is Small Is Beautiful, by E. F. Schumacher, that talks about developing local services to the scale of the area - that is one I might reread. I wonder if I still have it here?