How does the amount of trees being cut down every year affect our carbon footprint?

Carbon footprint is usually used to refer to a single person (me), or a thing (this Apple), or a family or household. It means the amount of carbon dioxide (or equivalent) released into the atmosphere by the activities, or existence of a peron, thing, or group.

However, the amount of trees cut down every year affects the carbon footprint of the whole world. Trees (and all growing vegetation) remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. The oxygen is released and the carbon is stored in the wood of the trees.

So when we cut down a tree we increaseour carbon footprint.