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Forests cover about 30% of the planet, but deforestation is clearing these essential habitats on a massive scale. What is deforestation? Find out the causes, effects, and solutions to deforestation.
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  1. Mankind needs to move past animal agriculture for many reasons. For one thing, it would reduce zoonotic diseases like the current pandemic, and the last one in 1918 which sprang from an animal farm in Kansas. Here is another. "Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020 Link on my channel under "About."

  2. When trees are felled, they do NOT release their carbon into the atmosphere. They do so, if they are burnt, or if they rot. Using timber for long term building material, to name one example, does in fact store the carbon, as long as the wood stays in its form. There are obviously still many reasons why deforestation and industrial scale timber harvestment have some big Issues, but i just wanted to correct this a little.

  3. Fight against deforestation is always tough task. The loggers is protected by the corrupt official and most of the government policies doesn't care about it. Even the press bail them to when the news expose in the Internet.

  4. Does everyone look pass the fact that we have created robots that can strip thousand year old ecosystem of life within minutes? Ya eduction for ya let’s right some comments below brainwashed society

  5. The only way to protect the rainforest is by going vegan, an acre of forest is destroyed every second so farmers can feed the animals that are killed to feed people., it makes no sense why people eat animals when we don’t have to. 91% of the rainforest is destroyed for animals agriculture.

  6. Why are they intentionally burning the Amazon rain forest?
    To graze cattle and grow soy to fatten animals for slaughter.
    Why do they do it?
    Because you buy meat and dairy. ———->Go vegan!

  7. They say a human life has no cost, but the time will come when a single tree will worth a thousand human lives.

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