Environmental Challenges

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how the forests of Central and South America are being completely destroyed and causing countless environmental problems. The paper examines what is being done today to combat these effects and shows how efforts are not effective and need to be redirected. The paper concludes that exploiting the land and water to improve the immediate condition of the people is an essential concept of human progress and will likely prove a substantial obstacle for any who attempt to fight deforestation.

From the Paper:

"The environmental challenge of deforestation is not a new phenomenon, though it has significantly increased in speed and intensity over the last half a century. (Williams, 2001, p. 30) Deforestation is a foundational environmental problem, which can depending on its severity bring many more environmental problems in its wake. The natural resource of trees has consistently been associated with the progress of the human race, as the wood provides a resource that is diverse and almost entirely free of waste, to help humans develop, build houses, plant crops, make paper and so forth. The problem then becomes how to balance the amount of wood and or land needed with the degradation created by removing it."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Andersen, L. E., Granger, C. W., Reis, E. J., Weinhold, D., & Wunder, S. (2002). The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
• Saving Rainforests May Be Doomed. (1994, April). USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 122, 15.
• Skinner, J. K. (1985, December). Big Mac and the Tropical Forests. Monthly Review, 37, 25.
• Williams, M. (2001, July). The History of Deforestation. History Today, 51, 30.
• Wunder, S. (2000). The Economics of Deforestation: The Example of Ecuador. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan.

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