More than 30 million people including the indigenous people count on the forest for food, agriculture, clothing, and traditional medicines (Amazon). The truth is that some of the indigenous tribes in South America will go extinct along with their unique language due to deforestation. The amazon is home to some of the most stunning animals such as, the gorilla, jaguar, pink dolphin, the macaw, and many others. Deforestation of the amazon is annihilating the homes of these marvelous creatures. Animal habitats are also being destroyed or altered due to deforestation.
In industrial countries, they destroy habitats in order to maintain their standard of living. But in developing countries, habitats are destroyed to support an increasing population and to increase financial success. As humans, they tend to care more about their needs and their ability to survive rather than the needs and concerns of the environment and its species. If mammals and their habitats are in the way of their financial success, I am certain that they would not hesitate to remove them from their paths. Habitat destruction is an important issue for many organizations and individuals.
The Impact of Imperialism The spread of culture is inevitable in our ever-globalizing world. However, the forced imposition of culture on those who may be unaware of its implications is detrimental to that society’s culture. The oppression and exploitation of human beings will ultimately lead to failure for both parties, the oppressed and exploited as well as the oppressive and exploitative. Although temporary monetary gain may be evident in the stealing of natural resources from lands to build and manufacture goods, the buildup of bitter emotion combined with the emotional toil forced upon both the colonized and the colonizers will result in conflict and setbacks in the development of the colonized and integrity and global status of the colonizers. In asserting themselves through trade and through imperialism, Western cultures have not improved the world but have rather caused irreversible damage.
It appears that Columbus is an impatient man, for when he did not get what he wanted, when he wanted, he released his wrath by brutally killing the natives, and so they could recognize his authority. Columbus also found that the success of his conquest was most important to him. It would not
The wind turbines kill thousands of protected eagles and bats each year. In California 10,000 eagles, hawks, and other birds are killed each and every year. This is one of those facts that the green team likes to hide. Instead they want to build 133 of the giant (390 feet) wind turbines in an area 16 times the size of the proposed area of ANWR. The wind turbine area in Wisconsin is a lushes marsh, home to millions of geese, ducks, and dozens of other migratory birds not to mention just down the road from a abandoned mine housing about 140,000 bats.
Cause and Effect of Water Pollution on Lake Huron According to the National Wildlife Federation: “The Great Lakes, Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario form the largest surface freshwater system in the world.” Together they hold nearly one-fifth of the earth’s surface freshwater. (Great Lakes, 1996-2013). Persistent chemicals that enter the lakes can remain there for many years, with many building up in the food web, including toxic pollutants, waste, raw sewage overflows, and runoff from cities and mining operations. (Great Lakes, 1996-2013). This damage produces harmful repercussions on the fish and wildlife stocks, and to the humans surrounding the Great Lakes regions as well.
Doliver Woo Part 2, Paper, “The bubonic plague is the most significant disease in western civilization.” October 7, 2014 (T) The black death has been the single most significant disease in human history and it’s effects have shaped many aspects of the modern world we live in today. (A)First off, the decrease in population, due to the bubonic plague, is unparalleled by any factor in ever recorded in western civilization. (B) Second, people who lived around this disease became so familiar with death, that the artwork of that era became dark and macabre. (C) Finally, the the effects from the black plague made such a remarkable impact on society, that the effects are still seen today. (T) Overall, this disease is unlike any other in the way it has continued to have influence on human civilization for hundreds of years.
BASIC FACTS and CHARACTERISTICS: The taiga represents 29 percent of the world’s forest cover. It contains many animals includes 85 species of mammals, 130 species of fish, 32,000 species of insects, 300 species of birds and 300 species of fish! Another amazing fact about the taiga is that the coldest temperature in the Northern hemisphere has been recorded there, which is -65 degrees Fahrenheit. Most of the taiga is covered by evergreens. The taiga, is prone to small wildfires because the trees have adapted to the climate and have thick bark which is protective against damaging wildfires.
Myers stated, “Deforestation in Brazil's Atlantic-coastal forest and Madagascar has been going on for several centuries, but the main damage has occurred during this century, especially since 1950, i.e., since the spread of broad-scale industrialization and plantation agriculture in Brazil and since the onset of rapid population growth in Madagascar.” (30) In agreement with Myers, Deforestation has been an ongoing environmental issue for many years. Because of ignorance, disregard, lack of values or deficient environmental laws the issue is continuing today. There are many causes of deforestation in the United States, as well as with other countries around the world. Not the least of which, is that land owners are selling their large forested acres to developers to make room for new housing
Today logging is starting to kill off a lot of the Amazonian Tribes Natural habitat the outside world has started to cause a conflict between the natural ecosystem that the Tribes have been living with for centuries and the Industrial logging companies that destroy the natural living environment for profit. While most Amazon tribes and Amazonian Indians live in the lush tropical rainforests some of the Amazon tribes exist in the grasslands and pampas and some even live in semi-desert areas. Because of the environment in which they live, The way they adapt and survive, varies greatly. In the warmer parts of the Amazon River Basin, most tribes were traditionally nude tribes with no cultural taboos of girls and women being naked. And depending on the area in which they live and the particular Amazon tribe they belong to, they have had no various influences by outside cultures.