Disadvantages Of Deforestation In The Amazon

In the nonfiction articles, “Sumatran Rainforest Will Mostly Disappear” by John Vidal and “Amazon Doomed Species Set to Pay Extinction Price” by Ian Sample explain deforestation and the costs of the situation. Both authors include strong points that give an idea of how the forests may end. Vidal gives many details about the consequences of deforestation, while Sample gives some details but not as many. Although Sample sets a good idea and generalization of deforestation in the Amazon, Vidal gives strong details that show the social conflicts, life-threatening effects, and future disadvantages and benefits of deforestation.

Vidal elaborates well on the social conflicts due to deforestation and new companies in the article “Sumatran Rainforest Will Mostly Disappear”. He claims there have been 600 major conflicts within the plantations. The conflicts and effects between the villages and companies induced over five thousand human rights abused followed by “twenty-two deaths and hundreds of injuries” (paragraph 8). Sadly, many of the community villagers have to work at the factories due to losing their resources from the wild. Many official

members are fighting for their rights and attempting to shut down their companies.
Next, they have no option but to work for the oil company because the forest was their grocery store, construction shop, and fuel supplier for the community. Vidal strongly explains their decisions depend on life or death and could lose almost everything if they do not work for the oil company. Due to financial problems, Greenpeace and April are acting against the companies, arguing that they trashed the forest, and building new companies. April also plants trees in place of those that are being demolished or taken down.
Finally, the disadvantages of deforestation cause many problems.

Vidal makes strong points over the effects of deforestation in the Amazon. Habitats are destroyed and abandoned. Villages have no choice but to work for the companies who destroy their only resources. Many species are going extinct as well. International Union for Conservation of Nature says, “250-400 tigers remain and fewer than 100 rhinos are left in the forests” (paragraph 5). Deforestation causes this problem to worsen over time. In addition, millions of acres withhold only fragments of the forest. Pollution covers the area with “a haze of blue smoke” (paragraph 1), and industrial landscape stretches over 30 miles of the forest. If deforestation is to continue, those in the Amazon face the possibility extinction, or for the villagers,

death.
Although Sample sets a good idea and generalization of deforestation in the Amazon, Vidal gives strong details that show the social conflicts, life-threatening effects, and future disadvantages and benefits of deforestation. Villages are getting involved in social conflicts with the oil companies who have invaded their areas. Vidal elaborates on abused human rights and others facing death. In addition, species are going extinct, and pollution is beginning to spread throughout the forest. Furthermore, officials have to restore the forest by planting trees. In conclusion, John Vidal creates a stronger argument than Ian sample because of the details and evidence he includes.