The topic I choose is Global Warming. Global warming is a big issue on the earth. This is the issue that I am most worry about, because If we don’t do something right now, then is going to be too late. When I am in trips with my family there is always a place where people contaminate our environment and that make me feel bad. In the Amazons in Brazil, they have a very big deforestation issues. Claim; Although you only one person cannot, you can still help and participate in saving the rainforest for many reasons. They are killing thousands of trees everyday. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest can be attributed to many different factors at local, national, and international levels. The rainforest is seen as a resource for cattle pasture, …show more content…
In 2000 the population was 174.5 million people and now it is 200.4 million. The majority of this growth is people that live in the amazons. Government started deforestation for two main reasons, clear more land for houses and roads, and to have more jobs and the selling of wood. The US population increased from 247.2 million to 318.9 million in the last 26 years. It tells us that the deforestation in Brazil is being affected a lot in the last 16 years, and experts wait for more increased of population in Brazil caused by the deforestation.Deforestation of tropical forests affects not only the plants and animals of these regions but also their human inhabitants. The Indian populations of Amazonia are successful managers of the forest. Long ago, they discovered the secrets of sustainable use of its resources. I discuss the knowledge and management of the forest environment exhibited by the Yanomami and Kayapo Indians of Brazilian Amazonia and the importance that their knowledge and their presence as part of the forest ecosystem has for us all. Not only is this forest ecosystem now being destroyed at a rapid rate, but we (the non-Indians) do not yet know how to care for and make use of whatever areas of forest will be left when this process of destruction is brought to a …show more content…
Other countries be saying that brazil is responsible for the deforestation in the amazon, deforestation has declined significantly since 2004, thanks to the creation of national parks and enforcement of laws. During the past 40 years, close to 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down. An area of Brazil 's rain forest larger than 200 football fields will have been destroyed. The market forces of globalization are invading the Amazon. In the past 3 decades, hundreds of people have died in land wars; countless others endure fear and uncertainty, their lives threatened by those who profit from the theft of timber and land. Industrial scale soybean producers are joining loggers and cattle ranchers in the land grab, speeding up destruction and further fragmenting the great Brazilian wilderness. Brazil once had the highest deforestation rate in the world and still had the largest area of forest removed annually. Since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (230,000 sq mi) of the amazon rainforest have been destroyed. In 2012, the Amazon was approximately 5.4 million square kilometres, which is only 87% of the Amazon’s original state. Nasa have some evidences of the brazil rainforest. How it have decreased in the past 15 years. Images that the Nasa took and it shows badly changes, how trees are being
This policy memo addresses the development and expansion of the cattle ranching industry in Brazil, which has contributed to the mass deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon in the last 40 years. It exposes the regional and global consequences to deforestation and provides strategies for the Brazilian government to sustainably manage cattle ranching industries while protecting the future of the Amazon. The rainforest ecosystem is an immense reserve of natural recourses that is far more valuable than the beef produced on Brazilian cattle ranches. Not only does the rainforest create habitat for up to 65% of the world’s biodiversity, but when harvested sustainably, it provides humans with an abundance of spices, foods, oils, medicines and vital research areas (NEWMAN).
Thus, deforestation is one of the biggest problems in the world that people have to consider because it has three main long term effects: land desertification, species extinction and climate change. The research paper will discuss and consider the long-term negative effect on the Amazon rainforest which is caused by deforestation. First, the paper will present the causes and effects of land deforestation. Another consideration is endangered species extinction that could affect the Amazon’s biodiversity. Finally, the paper will focus on how climate change and global warming affect the Amazon and what people should do in order to save the forests and solve those problems.
The Amazon Rain Forest Is in Danger of Being Destroyed" by Devadas Vittal. Rain Forests. HaiSong Harvey, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2002. Reprinted from Devadas Vittal, Introduction: What Is the Amazon Rainforest? Internet: http://www.homepages.go.com/homepages/d/v/i/dvittal/amazon/intro.html, November 1999, by permission of the author. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010021212&mode=view
Nowadays deforestation is the one of the most important and controversial environmental issues in the world. Deforestation is cutting down, clearing away or burning trees or forests. Particularly tropical rainforests are the most waning type of forests because of its location in developing countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, India, central African countries and Brazil. Deforestation rate in those regions is high enough to worry about, because of large economic potential of forest areas. As the result of causes such as agriculture land expansion, logging for timber, fire blazing and settling infrastructure there might be serious impacts in future. For instance, extinction of endemic species of animals and plants which will be feral, increase of greenhouse gas emissions which may lead to global warming and consecutive catastrophes, destruction of home for indigenous residents which is considered as violation of human rights. Some people can argue with these drawbacks telling that deforestation have more valuable benefits such as growth of economics, production of food and providing better opportunities for life for poor families. However, these benefits are quite temporary and government of that countries and world organisations tries to halt deforestation proposing several solutions. Deforestation problem is especially acute in the Brazilian Amazon, where its rate is much high comparing with other regions. This paper will describe world-wide rainforests, causes and effects of deforestation, and evaluate possible solutions of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest: Human degradation and its consequences Deforestation is a word that displays an image of cruelty against nature. In any language, and on every continent, the word deforestation is frowned upon by all social classes, however why it is still happening? The consequences of this act that involves human beings willing to cut down trees, burning plants, and destroy habitats of animals are just actions to satisfy some human being. The Amazon rainforest covers various countries where 60% is in Brazil, and 13% in Peru, and produces 20% of total oxygen in the world. Unfortunately, the political leaders of the countries that make up the Amazon jungle are not interested in its full protection and do not realize that the world health is in their hands.
John Muir once said "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." This quote is too true when describing the predicament the Amazon rainforest is facing at the very moment. By the time you finish reading this essay, a portion of Brazil’s rainforest, which is larger than 200 football fields, will have been destroyed. Humans must stop cutting down the trees in the amazon rainforest because it leads to many plants and animals being harmed and losing their homes, many people being harmed, and environment of the Amazon being destroyed.
The Amazon Rainforest is the world's largest tropical rainforest that we have today on our planet. It covers a wide range expanding almost entirely across from East to West of South America. It is most famous for its broad biodiversity and includes the famous Amazon River that is home to rare and diverse species. Today, the Amazon Rainforest is under threat of complete deforestation and has greatly lost more than half of its tropical rainforest due to cattle ranching, soy bean farming, sugar cane plantations, palm oil and biofuel agriculture. The indigenous people are doing their best to fight against the government to protect their land and conserve the rainforest but without capital finance, it is seeming to be an impossible project.
During the past 40 years the greatest injustice has been happening in the world: twenty percent of the Amazon Rainforest has been cut down. The people who cut down the trees are profiting from the theft of timber and land from the inhabitants of the Amazon Rainforest. Its native tribes are being forced out by the black market sellers and are losing their homes. Mass extinctions of animal species have been occurring and will keep happening with the industrializing companies invading the largest natural rain forest in the world. With twenty percent of it already destroyed, oxygen in the atmosphere has decreased significantly. Every year an area larger than the state of Maryland will be destroyed along with the ecological humans, plants, and animals that reside there.
Lambin developing more reliable scenarios on the future of the Amazon ecosystem and putting in place effective mechanisms to limit deforestation, requires focusing on the causal relationships at work in the socio-ecological system. The authors claim that the way in which causal relationships in geography are being represented today has changed considerably both in terms of the number of factors taken into account and in terms of the way in which these factors interact. Geography like many human sciences has evolved and moved from the identification of causal pathways linking a cause to an effect in a linear and unidirectional way to the consideration of many factors which are interrelated and which interact with each other. According to Scouvart and Lambin the tropical deforestation phenomenon should also be considered in the context of these scientific developments. Trying to explain the phenomenon by considering only one dominant factor (such as demographic expansion, national or infrastructure building policies) is too simplistic and fails to capture the complexity of the process, particularly in the case of the Brazilian Amazon. Therefore, both scholars advocate the multiplicity of the causes of deforestation in the Brazilian
Cattle ranches/farms (land), timber/pulp (resources), and money are some of the top reasons deforestation occurs so heavily in the Amazon (Butler). All of the reasons deforestation happens are for people’s businesses and lives to better. Tragically, the cost of their lives bettering is at the expense of the Amazon Rainforest, whose trees cannot replenish as fast as they are taken down. In fact, only a tiny fraction of the amount of trees taken down will be replanted by environmental groups. The only way to start getting positive numbers in the tree population of the Amazon would be to stop deforestation 100% and begin the replanting process which is, unfortunately, a nearly impossible
My parents grew up in small town in Mexico. There was a little river that went through part of the town when they were growing up. Every weekend or so they would go out and would go swimming with their families, it almost became a tradition to go swimming there until they noticed that the river 's water level was becoming smaller and smaller. Today there is no river anymore, instead it 's a road that travels through the town. Every time I visit my family in Mexico it would alway be nice and warm up until this year when I went in December. I remember waking up and getting ready to go to my aunt 's house in clothes for warm weather. As I open the door, the cold air punch me and I saw snowflakes falling down. It 's not supposed to snow in that
A few may argue that issue of deforestation is one of the major problems that human-beings are facing. Over million square kilometers of forests are disappearing in order to accommodate industrial, agricultural and urban consumption. According to National Geographic's figures, naturally- occurring forests cover approximately 30% of the planet and they are being cut in progressive rate (Climate 101 2016). Especially, only in Amazon rainforest over 750 000 km² of land have been devastated since 1978 (Butler, 2015). It appears to be the serious problem because deforestation leads to consequential difficulties such as loss of vegetation and animals, climate change, soil degradation.
Fearnside, Philip M. "Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates, and Consequences." Conservation Biology 19.3 (2005): 680-688. Print.
As oceans rise and glaciers melt, the inhabitants of Earth are left searching for reasons and solutions, but things have yet to be done because world leaders continue to point fingers, insisting they are not to blame. However, the debate should be shifted from who is to blame to who can fix it. Viewing the question of responsibility in this light, it is clear the developed world should take primary responsibility for global climate change, if only because they have the greatest capacity to combat it.
It is time to take a step back, and look at what is happening all around the world. There are very dramatic changes happening to the the place we call home. Many people are unaware of the damage that has been done to earth, and the real harm that is coming along with it now. As humans have polluted and slowly destroyed our planet earth. If no actions are taken upon to help fix the damage already done, and help prevent more from happening global warming will shortly lead to death everywhere. Effects that are currently happening are rising sea levels and climate change, certain countries are already dealing with effects of global warming worse then others, and more animals are going extinct.