Helping to Save the Rainforest
“Save the Rainforest.” “Don’t bungle the jungle.” We’ve all heard these sayings
time and time again, but when we are at the store, about to purchase a nice entertainment center for our TVs and stereos, “How can we be sure that our money is supporting our social and political concerns?” (Stark 1) Our efforts to save the rainforest aren’t as clear as they may seem. It is difficult to tell where wood comes from and where it is produced.
“There isn’t a way for the individual to identify a good wood from the bad, well-managed forests from ill managed, both domestically and tropically,” said Scott Landis, President of the Woodworkers Alliance for Rainforest Products (WARP), a non-profit organization of woodworkers, instrument makers and architects and designers. Landis suggests that as consumers, we should educate ourselves about the sources of products they sell. By looking around for signs and labels to see if they indicate responsible use of the rainforest and its products.
Without a better understanding of how the forest works, what influences it creates, dynamics and how resistant it is, there is little probability of any future for the few forests that still remain. It will be very difficult to change public opinions or remove some of the pressures forests face without attending a program of education. Some of the pressures on the rainforest, such as the rise of changing cultivation and population, come from hunger promoted by unequal ownership. (Park 31) I propose that the government in Brazil take nationalistic siege on all lumber exportation to foreign nations.
Governments spend a lot of money trying to help the ecology if rainforests, but apparently there has been little luck. According to Chris Park in Tropical Rainforests, “There have been numerous calls for major investment of time, money and trained personnel into research of rainforest ecosystems. While scientific research in recent decades has revealed a great deal about this unique and highly complicated ecosystem, important questions are still unanswered. There are still many gaps we need to know how to better understand the structure and ecology of rainforests. About 93 percent of the land are owned by only seven percent of the landowners. (Park 130)
In Brazil, only one percent of the farms occupies over forty three percent of the total farmland, forcing half of the farms to be squeezed onto less than three percent of the land and leaving about seven million families without land.
Wright, David, Heather LaRocca, and Grant DeJongh. "Global Problems." The Amazonian Rainforest: Forest to Farmland? The University of Michigan, 2007. Web. 14 Mar. 2014.
Understanding the etiology of an eating disorder is perhaps the most complicated issue surrounding the disease, as teasing apart cause and consequence can be extremely difficult. This problem becomes immediately apparent when examining family factors associated with eating disorders. Research over the past decade has focused largely on identifying family factors that potentially contribute to the development of an eating disorder in an individual, and further refining these characteristics into prototypes for the “anorexic family” or the “bulimic family.” Identifying a pattern of specific family risk factors would be an extremely useful tool in recognizing those vulnerable for developing an eating disorder. While the research has been unable to paint an entirely complete picture of family characteristics, certain traits surface as typical to the eating disordered family. Unfortunately, much of the existing literature on family factors and eating disorders relies upon correlational data, as controlled studies are difficult to conduct within a family setting. Caution must therefore be applied to such findings, as one cannot assume causality; based on strictly correlational studies alone, it cannot be determined whether the family environment caused the eating disorder, or whether the eating disorder led to family dysfunction. Nevertheless, it remains useful to examine any significant factors that emerge from the literature in order to increase understanding about each potential factor influencing the development of eating disorders.
Although eating disorders stem from several different factors, including psychological, emotional, social, and biological, there is usually one major source that influence people to develop an eating disorder. Those in an abusive, low-income household tend to have a higher risk for developing an eating disorder than those in a higher-income household. Biological factors of eating disorders can often come from parents with a history of eating disorders or whose parents are attempting to raise children while battling an eating disorder. Though in most cases, the children of parents with an eating d...
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Rainforests once covered 14% of the worlds land surface, however now it only covers a mere 6%. It is estimated that all rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Trees are becoming more needed and used everyday. We need them cut down for many reasons such as paper and timber, while also needing them ‘untouched’ for other reasons like oxygen, we have to ask ourselves, which is more important? At the current rate, most of the rainforests are being cut down for resources like paper and timber, but less importance is being placed on main resources like oxygen.
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