Deforestation of Rainforest?

Question

World 60% of rain forest have already gone, 40 species and 20 acres of rain forest are killed per minute, are we killing the world for our selfish?

What is the solution??

Answer 1

The solution is to stop being selfish, but that's impossible, we're naturally selfish, it takes too much discipline to not be selfish, plus it's much more profitable. The rich get richer the poor stay poor.

Answer 2

How are we going to stop it is right. Especially when there are huge Business Cartels ripping it all out and then burning what is left, and then to plant Palm Trees in order to make Palm Oil to be made into Bad Bio Fuels.

When I say Bad Bio fuels, apparently according to a programme on Radio 4 this afternoon there was a discussion on the Bio fuels which are being produced. Some are good Bio fuels, and others are Bad. Like the palm oil (from the rainforest areas which have been cleared and then burned) produce 8 times more carbon when made into Bio Diesel or Bio ethanol than the normal diesel and petrol we use now. This fuel is coming into the UK now, and is being used.
There are other crops which can be grown which are far more efficient and less damaging to the environment, and are all being tested as we speak. In particular wheat, rapeseed, and sugar cane.

So going back to how are we going to do something about it. By NOT BUYING the products that are being produced from Palm Oil.

Palm Oil Products:- Soap
Chocolate
Toothpaste
Biscuits
Cosmetics
Muesli
Edible oil
Margarine
Crisps

You can do you bit by looking on labels when shopping in the supermarket, and make sure that you buy things only with named oils other than palm oil, nor ones that just say vegetable oil; as more often than not when a label says vegetable oil it is palm oil.

Answer 3

We have two solutions, two options, two possibilities.

The first is that we carry on as we have been for the past 10,000 years. We carry on policies of growth, expansion, and competition. We put our faith in the ingenuity of mankind and we carry on destroying the rainforests. It is remotely possible that this will lead to some kind of a 'science fiction' type future with us all living in a synthetic world. But the more than likely conclusion is war, pestilence, famine, and the death of mankind.

The second solution is that we stop destroying the rainforrest and we set about reversing the ecological disasters mankind has already put in place. I'm sorry to be cynical, but for anyone living in an affluent society (that's you and me) this is next to impossible. How can we persuade our friends, our neighbours, our communities, and our governments to reduce consumption to a level that will reverse deforestation?
Reducing comsumption reduces trade, and reducing trade reduces employment, and reducing employment increases discontent so the government won't buy it. Reducing consumption means reducing the population, reducing medical care, reducing famine relief and foreign aid so communities won't buy it. Reducing consumption means loosing our motor cars, our trendy clothes, our fine food and drink, our technological gagetry, our air conditioning, our holidays and outings, so our friends and neighbours won't buy it.

I get a feeling the world will go for the first solution, so goodbye rainforest, goodbye endangered species and welcome to a world of war, pestilence, famine, and greed.
We are not killing the world, that will go on and on. It's mankind we are killing.

Please don't tell me there is a middle way - there isn't. The only hope for mankind is revolution and commitment to our future.

Answer 4

Simple life style. Today's life style put a very high demand to sustain. We are brainwashed to get ourselves a big house, big car, using A/C exclusively to provide comfort, travel long distance for entertainments, vacations, etc. If we can all tune these down a notch, there will be less demand on all natural resources and many of the issues we talk about today will be less critical. The planet can only supply so much. There are already many of us and our population is keep growing. We only accelerate the problem even more.

Answer 5

I think I heard the other day that more co2 is produced in a single day of strip and burn deforestation than a whole year of airline flights. If I got this right then surely this is the most important matter to be addressed if we are to seriously tackle global warming.

Answer 6

Reforestation and deurbanization, plus a strong research group finding alternatives to fossil fuels and products made from rainforest materials. We are killing the world out of selfishness, and self-centeredness, because we do not see anything but our own wants (not even our needs). If we saw other people's needs and ignored them it would be completely selfishness, but we frequently don't see them at all.

Answer 7

to stop pr put the price up for wood or whatever we are using the rain forest for, one day soon the world leaders will look at this problem and say OOP's

Answer 8

This is one of my best subject. People being cruel to trees. Here's what we can do:
1. Organise campaigns about this issue.
2. Teach your children since young.
3. Try writing letters to the authorities to take action.

Answer 9

yes, we are killing for selfish reasons, my family have been farmers and ranchers for years and the way to stop a lot of that is to alternate the way you plant you crops, for instance if plant corn in one place, the next year plant potates in that place. that is why the deforestation is on going because the wood is needed to build homes and the area is used to plant crops,because the no one is using their heads about planting and replant what they cut down.

Answer 10

we should 'pay' these countries to not destroy the rain forest. They are cleared and the land used to generate an income for the indigenous population.