We are the corporations that need to continue cutting down the Rainforests. The population keeps growing thus there is an increase need for lumber forcing us to cut down trees. We need more lumber but we also need more land to raise cattle and other animals to feed the world. What else are we to do?
Resources
www.texaco.com/sitelets/ecuador/en/- history of Texaco's involvement in Ecuador
www.amazon-rainforest.org/economic-importance.html - Amazon’s Rainforest Economy
www.jmu.edu/evision/archive/volume3/essays/delfaus.html - Why we Deforest
www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cline/papua/deforestation.htm - Resource Boom or Grand Theft?
www.mongabay.com/brazil.html - Amazon Deforestation
To deforest or not to? That is the ongoing debate the world has faced for years. All people on the earth are affected by this dilemma. Where do you stand?
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