How is the rain forest a negitive impact on mankind?

Answer 1

Lisa you are clearly NOT a biologist of any kind. Rainforests are not a source of oxygen at all, much less a major one. See the link below. This is something that any biologist knows.

And rainforests have numerous negative impacts, which is also something any real biologist would know.

Rainforests are unproductive. People can't live in rainforests because there isn't enough food. Even those people who are often described as living in rainforests live in cleared farms within the forest and occasionally hunt in the forest. There simply isn't enough accessible food in any rainforest on earth to support human beings.

Rainforests are a major harbourage of vermin, weeds and pests. These organisms then leave the forest and destroy people, crops and animals.

Rainforests are a major harbourage of criminals. Everyone from drug producers to terrorist groups such as Al Qaida use rainforests as their bases of operations.

Rainforests are aggressive and destroy biodiversity. In many parts of the world rainforest is choking put grasslands and woodlands an in the process contributing to the extinction of plants and animals.

Answer 2

First of all the rain forest have no negative impact in mankind at all. In fact no ecosystem has a negative impact on mankind. It is one of the most diverse ecosystem in the world,providing home for hundreds of variety species of plants and animals. Not too mention we get medicinal drugs from the rain forests, as well as important crops such coffee,bananas,chocolate,mangoes, etc. If anything mankind is having the negative impact on the rain forest which will have a negative impact on mankind. And first of all there are native people that do live in the rain forest and have used the rain forests for many centuries. The rain forest provide them with food and shelter.

Answer 3

Rain forests are a major storage of carbon. If man were to burn the rain forests, then that would release a large amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This would play havoc with the temperature. So rain forests are a ticking time bomb. This calls for preservation of rain forests.

Answer 4

The rain forest doesn't have a negative impact on mankind. For one thing, it's a MAJOR source of oxygen (which we need to survive), and one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.

Answer 5

The rainforest is very beneficial to humankind. It's a major source of oxygen, without which we wouldn't be able to survive.

Answer 6

it keeps us from building condos in the pristine element and from displacing the indigenous species that rely on the forest to live.

darn forests.

-eagle

Answer 7

it stimulates hatred of companies that cut them down, and hatred in any form is negative.