Amazon Rainforest Pros And Cons

There has been an ongoing debate on how the Amazon Rainforest should be exploited. The Forest is a vast 1.7 billion acre tropical rainforest located in South America. It covers 60% of Northwestern Brazil. Because of many resources the Rainforest possess, there are different views on how the forest should be harnessed. For example, some believe that the forest’s trees be used for rubber tapping or be extracted from tree sap to improve Brazil’s economy. Loggers believe that they should be able to continue chopping down trees for their countries benefit. Cattle Ranchers have the idea that they can clear land to raise and live of off their livestock. Settlers want to continue to live the forest and burn down trees to sustain their way of life. Lastly, Native Amazonians believe they have the right to the Rainforest because it is the ancestral home to most Indian tribes of the world and they were essentially there first. In the case of who should have control over the Amazon Rainforest, It should be the Native Amazonians because of the of the deep ancestral roots and firmly established way of life they have created.
Firstly, Amazonians should have control because in the case of the rainforest, industrialism of other organizations and groups are trying to implement is doing more harm than good. For example,
In another source Native Amazonians died because an organization funded projects to “improve” the Amazon's coasts, which is a form of industrialism. Lastly, in the third source, some Amazonian’s land and livelihood were destroyed because Brazil infiltrated their part of the forest to use the forest's resources to create cheaper energy for their land. So essentially, one could conclude that exercise of industrializing this forest is causing a negative impact on native Amazonians and their