GEOG 1982 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Grave Danger, Carbon Sequestration
15 Dec 2017
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National geographic last of the amazon by scott wallace. The author estimates that by the time you finish reading his article, 200,000 yards of the. I am a slow reader so by the time i finish it could be more. Globalization is destroying the amazon; hundreds of people have died in an effort to save the. 20% of the amazon rainforest has been destroyed in the past 40 years. The river levels are being reduced and brazil is one of the world"s largest greenhouse gas emitters. This mass deforestation is occurring to create the soy highway. There are more than 100,000 miles of roads illegally created by loggers. Once the loggers finish, more people will begin to live in these areas. This mass deforestation coupled with global warming could worsen fires going on in brazil. The grileiros make phony land titles and steal land that they then deforest. The brazilian government discovered over 62,000 counts of this land fraud.
