Although deforestation has many harmful effects, people are still clearing forests. State reasons to explain why.
2007-09-29 01:21:09 · 11 answers · asked by thunderball 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Agriculture and the need for forest products (paper, wood, etc.)
2007-10-01 06:47:41 · answer #1 · answered by Wayner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, honestly what do you want me to say to you. Do you want me to make up this long story about how there is an underground plot between all of the real estate moguls of this world to take out each and every tree. Do you want to hear about the secret society of tree haters???
Seriously, i don't mean to be a prick or anything but I'm pretty sure the reason that people keep cutting down trees is due to the fact that we as a world are WAY overpopulated (which is a great reason to have this little thing that we all hate, called war which is a completely different rant) but tree-huggers are generally opposed to war so instead of just killing off the population we are forced to cut down trees to make room for apartment complexes and public housing to find places to store all of these extra people running around.
We need more room
2007-09-29 01:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by excelsiorgtr420 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because wood is still profitable and a neccessary product regardless if you see the BIG picture or not. If you lived in the Amazon for instance the pretty forest is covering land you could use to grow food to eat to prevent dying or to support your family.
2007-09-29 07:25:38 · answer #3 · answered by geo3598 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Farming, wood products mining, expansion of human living habitats
2007-09-29 02:03:09 · answer #4 · answered by Bob D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They want to use the land for another purpose.
You won't find *any* activity that has no harmful effects...
2007-09-29 01:25:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because, people still want to farm and harvest wood, etc. They don't see the big picture and are simply meeting their immediate needs.
2007-09-29 01:29:20 · answer #6 · answered by Ellie S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simply because they need the land to produce food so they can produce more people so they can clear more land to produce more food so they can produce more people, etc., etc.
2007-09-29 01:33:58 · answer #7 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't know, but I would really like to know what they think is going to make the AIR to breathe after they are gone.
2007-09-29 01:30:20 · answer #8 · answered by spiritwalker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they are too bloody stupid to realize that they are asphyxiating their grandchildren.
2007-09-29 03:24:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because nowadays, human materialistic..........
2007-09-29 01:29:27 · answer #10 · answered by chain y 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋