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Deforestation of the Amazon - Coggle Diagram
Deforestation of the Amazon
Economic
Effects
Higher quality of Life
Increased profit and GDP
Increase in fines for farmers
Reasons
Industry runs on cattle and soy farming
Other countries used natural resources, why can’t brazil
Need for more farmland
Increased demand from china because of US sanctions
Failure from UN to pay what was promised
Dam rivers for energy
Territory for mining
Environmental Impacts
Loss of habitats
Increase in savannah territories
Greatly decreased biodiversity
Decreased rainfall leading to drought
Loss of carbon sink
Global increase in greenhouse gasses, leading to climate change
What can you do?
Decreased consumption of paper and wood
Decreased consumption of oil (go electric?)
Decreased consumption of meat, especially beef
Hold businesses accountable
Become better educated
Donate to conservation efforts
Appeal to representatives
Effect on people living in Amazon
Natives
Loss of food sources
Natives will encounter more disease-bearing outsiders
Tribes lose ancestral land
Tribes exterminated and land taken
Farmers
Temporary Prosperity
Farmland will dry up with drought
Life at risk as tensions rise
Farming eventually shut down if not sustainable