Dear ladies and gentlemen‚ I am a member of the Brazilian Government and we believe that large scale development should be allowed in the Amazon rainforest and I am going to give you our reasons in this speech. Firstly we know that the tourism industry is one of the country’s biggest employers‚ involving one in every eleven workers. It contributes an estimated 8 percent to the country’s GDP. In the rainforest quite a substantial amount of developments will be to do with tourism therefore making
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Pros and Cons of Clearcutting There are many good and bad reasons to clear cut or not to clear cut and most people don’t understand that clear cutting isn’t bad per say but can be helpful in the long run. There are two versions of clear cutting‚ one called a commercial clear cut‚ where only the merchantable tree is cut‚ leaving the unmerchantable tree behind to be either left or burnt in the slash piles. The other is a plain old clear cut‚ where everything is cut‚ from the merchantable trees to
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Deforestation is a severe environmental destruction which cannot be revived easily if changed at current rate. Therefore‚ I totally agree that deforestation causes a lot of environmental problems. Deforestation includes the cutting down‚ burning and destructing of forests. The deforestation affects the ecosystem and disrupts the oxygen and carbon oxide cycle. People have an impression that if the trees were cut down‚ it will grow back in a few years. Everyone knows the trees are very
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The Causes and Effects of Deforestation Deforestation is becoming more and more popular in many countries all over the world. “Based on environment statistics‚ more than half of the trees in this world are gone due to human activity” (Nayak‚2008)‚ this action has been direct influences on mankind lives. Therefore‚ the causes and effects of deforestation is one of the most interested problems at the present time. There are some main reasons why deforestation is happening increasingly. I have
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Forest Logging on the Environment Ethics and Social Responsibility Monday‚ November 24‚ 2008 The McGraw Hill Online Learning Center defines the term environmental ethicsas a search for moral values and ethical principles in human relations with the natural world. The branch of philosophy that deals with values in general is known as axiology‚ and ethics‚ a subdivision of axiology‚ is more or less concerned with moral values‚ or non- moral values as they relate to moral values. Environmental
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Title of the Study : Addressing the Impact of Overpopulation in Pearl of the Orient Sea. Purpose of the Study: To provide an information what will be the impact of overpopulation that our nation might face. This research intend to be an eye opener to our beloved citizen to raise awareness regarding to overpopulation. This material thing hopes to find its place among the research
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Definition of afforestation: Afforestation is the process of establishing a forest on land where there is no forest‚ by planting trees or sowing their seeds and caring continually until the trees grow collectively as a whole into a forest as planned. Need and importance of afforestation: Afforestation helps in addressing the environmental issues of the world‚ esp. in preventing further global warming and reversing the effects of global warming. It also helps in avoiding desertification. As
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Describe and analyse the biophysical interactions that impact on the Madden’s Creek ecosystem. The Madden’s Creek ecosystem is located at the beginning of George’s River and is found 60km south west of Sydney at an elevation of 350 meters above sea level. About 45% of the catchment contains large tracts of natural bush land. It is home to many species of flora and fauna creating a wide range of biodiversity that interlink and affect each other significantly. In this ecosystem there is a mixture
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As an environmentalist‚ attention to detail in nature is necessary. Not only does nature consist of the beautiful larger picture‚ but also the miniscule seeds and crawling insects as much as the towering trees and puffy clouds. Oftentimes‚ the small aspects of nature are lost in favor of the larger picture. In three different climates and geographic locations‚ Gilbert White‚ Aldo Leopold‚ and Edward Abbey exhibit in their writings how close observation is an essential aspect of nature that is forgotten
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An emerald ash borer‚ is a bug that most people don’t know about‚ but need to start having knowledge about. The ash trees are an important part of our environment and our economy. For the environment‚ the tree is helpful for protection‚ housing and temperature control. In our economy‚ we use ash trees for lumber‚ landscaping‚ and things such as baseball bats. This invasive bug was surprisingly discovered 13 years ago‚ and has been eating away and destroying our ash trees ever since (Emerald Ash Borer)
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