what causes rainforest deforestation in the amazon?

Answer 1

logging companies for profit ,poor farmers clearing land by cutting or burning to grow crops

Answer 2

Poverty is causing rainforest deforestation in the Brazillian Amazon. How is that possible? Well there are many people in Brazil that can't get any kind of job doing something else, so they cut down parts of the forest, grow crops there until they degrade the soil enough to where it's unusable, and then they move on. If they had better opportunity for decent jobs, they wouldn't have to resort to this.

Answer 3

some human beings particularly do no longer care of the planet and shrink each and all of the wood without thinking that some will go through. yet perhaps it is how they stay. slicing wood for funds. each and every physique has to stay... the implications are that the planet will go through. the superb thing with reference to the Amazon rain woodland will disappear. perhaps your babies won't even see it! (ok, it is not that undesirable, yet perhaps your babies's youngster's babies won't see it). The ozone layer would be much less and much less meaning swifter worldwide warming (it is greater led to by pollution in spite of the shown fact that). P.S. as long simply by fact the cutters additionally plant wood back, there is basically approximately no longer something incorrect!

Answer 4

in brazil the rain forest are being cut down to grow sugarcane for making ethanol.
sounds stupid
cut down rainforest's that absorb CO2
to grow a crop that is burned to make more CO2
how is that environmentally cleaner.
and how will that cut CO2 emissions

Answer 5

People are cutting down the trees to clear land to grow crops.

Answer 6

Clearing land to make farms.

Answer 7

Expanding settlement
agriculture
and the production of ethanol
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Nearly 40,000 hectares of forest vanish every day, driven by the world's growing hunger for timber, pulp and paper, and ironically, new biofuels and carbon credits designed to protect the environment.

Brazil's ethanol slaves:
200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom



Behind rusty gates, the heart of Brazil's energy revolution can be found in the stale air of a squalid red-brick tenement building. Inside, dozens of road-weary migrant workers are crammed into minuscule cubicles, filled with rickety bunk-beds and unpacked bags, preparing for their first day at work in the sugar plantations of Sao Paulo.

This is Palmares Paulista, a rural town 230 miles from Sao Paulo and the centre of a South American renewable energy boom that is transforming Brazil into a global reference point on how to cut carbon emissions and oil imports at the same time. Inside the prison-like construction are the cortadores de cana - sugar cane cutters - part of a destitute migrant workforce of about 200,000 men who help prop up Brazil's ethanol industry.

Biofuels are mega-business in Brazil. Such has been the success of the country's ethanol programme - launched during the 1970s military dictatorship - that it is now attracting attention from around the world. Yesterday President George Bush arrived in Sao Paulo to announce an "ethanol alliance" with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva. The bilateral agreement has been touted by the Brazilian media as the first step towards the creation of an "ethanol Opec".

Last year sugar and alcohol were Brazil's second biggest agricultural export products, worth an estimated $8bn (£4bn). Producers, meanwhile, expect the country's sugar cane production to jump by 55% in the coming six years, largely because of growing demand from the US and Europe. They hope that closer trade ties with the US in particular will help accelerate the ethanol industry's growth, providing jobs and funding the construction of dozens of new processing plants in the region.

But drive to the outskirts of Palmares Paulista and a much bleaker picture emerges of what President Lula has dubbed Brazil's "energy revolution". On one side, thick green plantations of sugar cane stretch out as far as the eye can see; on the other lopsided red-brick shacks crowd together, home to hundreds of impoverished workers who risk life and limb to provide the local factories with sugar cane.

Economic refugees fleeing the country's arid and impoverished north-east, these men earn as little as 400 reais (£100) a month to provide the raw material that is fuelling this energy revolution. Palmares Paulista is both a burgeoning agricultural town and a social catastrophe. "They arrive here with nothing," said Valeria Gardiano, who heads the social service department in Palmares, a town of 9,000 whose population swells each year with the influx of between 4,000 and 5,000 migrant workers.

"They have the clothes on their bodies and nothing else. They bring their children with malnutrition, their ill mothers-in-law. We try to reduce the problem. But there is no way we can fix it 100%. It is total exploitation," she said. Activists go even further. They say the "cortadores" are effectively slaves and complain that Brazil's ethanol industry is, in fact, a shadowy world of middle men and human rights abuses.

"They come here because they are forced from their homes by the lack of work," said Francisco Alves, a professor from nearby Sao Carlos University who has spent more than 20 years studying Sao Paulo's migrant workforce. "They will do anything to get by." That includes working 12-hour shifts in scorching heat and earning just over 50p per tonne of sugar cane cut, before returning to squalid, overcrowded "guest houses" rented to them at extortionate prices by unscrupulous landlords, often ex-sugar cutters themselves.

Faced with exhausting work in temperatures of over 30C (86F), some will die. According to Sister Ines Facioli, from the Pastoral do Migrante, a Catholic support network based in nearby Guariba, 17 workers died between 2004 and 2006 as a result of overwork or exhaustion. But the annual exodus from the northeast continues, and as foreign investment in the ethanol industry increases the numbers are expected to grow further.

Answer 8

they clear the land to grow sugar cane, which is more efficient to produce ethanol

Answer 9

lumber companies...especially bad when they use the slash and burn technique

Answer 10

the logging industry...