Value Of Environmental Agencies

Value of Environmental Agencies

In current times man has become so consumed with weapons and money that the
planet has been neglected. With something so typical and now common as chopping
down the rainforest to produce trees for mass abundance of political paper and
land to graze more cattle this thoughtless destruction, disturbs all aspects of
the environment. This is business as usual. The lands being destroyed are the
most unique and diverse lands in the world. Chris Park Senior lecturer in the
Department of Geographer at Lancaster University states, “The available
statistics are impressive and... the rainforest's claim to fame as the richest
ecological zone on earth”(26). In order to efficiently restore and protect the
damaged land, animals, and people environmental agencies' must be valued.
By destroying the forest, we are creating an open-door policy for
disease. For example, the S.Amerindians have long adopted to endemic disease
and have prevented them, in large part, by their adaptation to conditions of
life over the 20,000 years they have inhabited the tropical forest. With the
lumber companies invading these towns and villages, their western germs are
exposing isolated, once-contained people. Kathlyn Gay, author of Rainforests of
the World, mentions, “Indigenous people in many countries have died because of
contact with outsiders-usually whites of northern European extraction-who have
brought contagious diseases, ranging from mea...

Value Of Environmental Agencies

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