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The period since 1950 has brought "the most rapid transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in the history of humankind".[1] Almost one-third of the world's forests, and almost two-thirds of its grassland, have been lost to human agriculture—which now occupies almost half the world's habitable land.[2]
^Steffen, Will; Sanderson, Angelina; Tyson, Peter; Jäger, Jill; et al. (2004). "Global Change and the Climate System / A Planet Under Pressure"(PDF). International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). pp. 131, 133. Archived(PDF) from the original on 19 March 2017. Fig. 3.67(j): loss of tropical rainforest and woodland, as estimated for tropical Africa, Latin America and South and Southeast Asia.
^Brown, Daniel G., ed. (2013). Land use and the carbon cycle : advances in integrated science, management, and policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN9781107648357. OCLC823505307.