The answer to this question is yes. I believe that it is possible to stop the destruction of tropical rain forests by changing our modern living habit. I’d like to talk about how to deal with this issue by using two points.
First, let’s abstain from eating meet. Let’s reduce livestock farming as much as possible. According to one report, 40% of tropical rain forests in
I’m not saying that we should become vegetarian. But we should a little bit forgo excessively relying on meat industry.
Second, let’s avoid the rapid increase in the number of Slash and burn agriculture in order to produce food. Slash and burn agriculture is particularly important throughout the tropics where, when done properly, it can provide people with a secure source of food and income. Many critics point out however that when done improperly, slash and burn agriculture can quickly degrade large areas of forest which do not recover. We are too much in affluent environment. For example, it is said that 30% of lunch box sold at convenience store are thrown out. What a waste it is! Let’s reduce the variety of lunch box. We should refrain from excessive supply on the market.
We should not forget that we can get affluence in return for environmental destruction.
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Will we have enough forest in tropical areas even in the future?
I deeply suspect it. The reasons are the following.
First of all, people who need wood are mostly living in northern parts of the glove, which means most of them are of industrialized country. Developed countries are usually very rich compared to third world nations. And those industrialized countries need a lot of wood as raw material to make export goods. So they pay a lot of money to the goverment officals there to get permissions to log. So nowadays so much of wood are being logged and disappearing.
Given the apparent fact in front of their eyes that they are losing forest, they actually anytime can stop giving permissions to those developed countries so that they would not keep deforestation going. But when poor countries are showed a lump of money in front of them, it is very difficult for them to restrain their greed, resulting letting deforestation keep going.
Always environmental problems come to this root issue: people especially with power cannot save the decent environment for the later generations, just because of immediate benefit. They tend not to work for the sake of future generations.
But does it mean all of forest are going to disappear? I do not think so. Even though it would be true that rather portion of tropical forest disppear, it does not mean we human being log all the forest. So some portion of forest would be preserved in the wake of serious concern for the future of environment and subsequent health effect to human beings because wood are essential for human beings in terms of supplying oxygen to us.
So anyway, tropical rain forest would not totally disappear despite of our foolishness, but the time when we decide to stop deforestation would be rather too late so it would take long time for the forest to recover its self and give us good level of invisible health benefits. So during this course of time we or our descendants would have to go through unhealthy environment.
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