♥ I need statisitcs of how many acres of Rain Forests are cut each year for my paper?
♥ Hello there fellow environmentalists ♥
I am asking if it were possible for someone to aid me in providing legitimate sites of how many acres of rain forest are cut each year, how many rivers contaminated, companies that evoke smog, and how many countries actually recycle compared to those of other countries.
♥ It is much appreciated- I need this for my paper that I will be writing and I just need some information about all my questions. I know that Global warming takes part in the dangers of the Earth, but deforestration is just as influential.
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1) The trees that are cut in rain forests every minute are enough in order to fill 50 soccer courts.
2) If we pile up all the paper that an American uses every year it would have the same height as a two-floor building.
3) The number of plastic cups that we use in 4 days reach the population of America( approximately 240.000.000).
4) The trees that are cut in Canada and America every year for Christmas are enough in order to fill 3.000 kilometers square.
5) If we place all the plastic cups that are fabricated in one day all over the world, we would cover the perimeter of the Earth.
I believe the Rain Forests are being cut simply to clear the land for farming and industry. Sadly much of it is simply piled up and burned. They select the exotic hard woods for furniture and flooring but not paper, and just burn the rest...sad.
Most paper production is from renewable soft woods, like the huge pine forests replanted and harvested in the NW of the US and Canada.
It may not be as bleak a situation as you think, trees convert CO2 but young trees do it a lot better than old, think when you do your research you'll find the rain forest is at risk from farmers who want land for animals to serve the fast food industry, not for paper.
As most paper is produced from young forest not rain forest, your question is a tad misguided. Certainly within Europe, wood for paper production is produced with sustainability very much in mind and you only have to visit scandinavia to see for yourself.
Friends of the Earth should be able to help with your research. It has been said the the USA uses the same amount of paper as the rest of the world, but I cannot confirm that fact.
The actual rate of deforestation is difficult to determine. The most recent figures by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimate tropical deforestation (of the rain forest and other tropical forests) at 53,000 square miles per year.
I learned in Social Studies a few years back that 50,000 trees are cut down just to make the Sunday Paper. And that's for only one isue of it.
An extension of the deforestation for paper issue - how much for disposable nappies? Would this fit into your paper?
Essentially zero. Paper is made from pulp wood that is grown as a crop.