E-Essentially, due to climate change and p-pollution, my planet's environment had... been d-damaged so extensively in the past that... the percentage of tree cover d-dropped dramatically...

Though there have been... a-attempts to repair the damage, Terra's trees, a-along with the rest of its environment, are still... under heavy m-monitoring. Computer a-archival technology, particular massive p-planetary databases, are... a more e-efficient replacement for paper-based t-technology...

[He says all this in a way that suggests it's an explanation he's had to give many, many times.]