Deforestation of the Amazonian Rainforest
Deforestation of the Amazonian Rainforest
Earth’s natural resources are what we are extracting from the earth. Industries, which excavate the earth’s resources, include forestry, oil extraction, and mining. Present-day society is based upon a vast consumption of non-replaceable minerals and fuels such as coal, oil and natural gasses. Other materials such as cotton, wool timber and produce, if utilized wisely can be replenished. Is the carbon dioxide level higher, due to massive amounts of forest being cut down and the levels of carbon dioxide left in the atmosphere higher? Therefore, my hypothesis is that deforestation of the Amazon rainforest leads, not only, to a reduction of the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere, but also to an increased release of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The earth’s natural resources are there for all of us to use. We need the water, food, air, energy, medicines, warmth, shelter and minerals that the earth’s natural resources give us. Therefore, keeping us fed, comfortable, healthy and alive. If we use the resources carefully then they will last indefinitely. But if we use them wastefully and excessively, they will soon run out and all will suffer. The excessive waste is happening in our rainforest every minute of every day of every year. Roger Stone and Catherine Caufield report that pristine rainforests have become battlegrounds between nature and those bent on imposing their order. (Caufield & Stone, 1985) “The casualty list is frightening: Indians who have been displaced by meaningless roads that go from nowhere to nowhere; thousands of acres of erstwhile rainforest, now gray moonscape, foraged by skinny cows searching for a few blades of grass; and small farmers fighting to hold onto a miserable patch of cleared jungle against the private army of some corporate
Earth’s natural resources are what we are extracting from the earth. Industries, which excavate the earth’s resources, include forestry, oil extraction, and mining. Present-day society is based upon a vast consumption of non-replaceable minerals and fuels such as coal, oil and natural gasses. Other materials such as cotton, wool timber and produce, if utilized wisely can be replenished. Is the carbon dioxide level higher, due to massive amounts of forest being cut down and the levels of carbon dioxide left in the atmosphere higher? Therefore, my hypothesis is that deforestation of the Amazon rainforest leads, not only, to a reduction of the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere, but also to an increased release of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The earth’s natural resources are there for all of us to use. We need the water, food, air, energy, medicines, warmth, shelter and minerals that the earth’s natural resources give us. Therefore, keeping us fed, comfortable, healthy and alive. If we use the resources carefully then they will last indefinitely. But if we use them wastefully and excessively, they will soon run out and all will suffer. The excessive waste is happening in our rainforest every minute of every day of every year. Roger Stone and Catherine Caufield report that pristine rainforests have become battlegrounds between nature and those bent on imposing their order. (Caufield & Stone, 1985) “The casualty list is frightening: Indians who have been displaced by meaningless roads that go from nowhere to nowhere; thousands of acres of erstwhile rainforest, now gray moonscape, foraged by skinny cows searching for a few blades of grass; and small farmers fighting to hold onto a miserable patch of cleared jungle against the private army of some corporate