Value Of Environmental Agencies

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Term Paper Title	Value Of Environmental Agencies
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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 measles to influenza, and sexually
transmitted disease”(20).  With the importance of the land resources comes the
ever significance of the atmosphere.  The atmosphere's most predictive component
is the ozone layer.  The distribution of the forests and multiplying of grazing
cattle are causes immense damage to the ozone.  John Nichol, head of Worldfest
90' production and marketing, alludes, “In Brazil and other countries in South
and Central America the smoke from fires burning the jungle is sometimes so
thick that great palls of it drift for miles(140).  These smoke clouds are
affecting the weather patterns.  “Weather patterns are changing too, and the
consensus of informed opinion is that this too is a direct result of destruction
of the forest”(Nichol 136).  The slashing and burning of the Amazon forest is
causing carbon monoxide build-up, promising severe damage to our security
blanket of the ozone.  This damage and the critically harsh and uncharacteristic
weather pattern ...

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