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An issue our group would like to focus is: __THE CAUSE OF DEFORESTATION and THE EFFECT IT HAS__
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The following are some of the main [|causes]
 * logging
 * **unsustainable agriculture**

[|**Logging and Deforestation**] 11 million acres a year are cut for commercial and property industries. Accpording to a man named Peter Heller he said McDonald's needs 800 square miles of trees to make the amount of paper they need for a year's supply of packaging. According to Entity Mission, it found that British Columbia manufactures 7, 500,000 pairs of chopsticks a day, and the demand for fuel wood.

According to the FAO, 90 per cent of deforestation is caused by unsustainable agricultural practices, while logging and plantation forestry play a greater role in forest degradation. Access to forests is made through government-promoted road projects, either built to open up and develop the forests or resulting from the commercial activities of logging, mining, and energy generation. it is clear that deforestation can take place only because a number of government policies - social and economic - indirectly promote it. Poor people baisically operate chainsaws or, if they are just plain simple minded people, set the forest on fire, but the point is governments and corporations are to blame for deforestation.
 * unsustainable agriculture**

ONE EFFECT DEFORESTATION CAUSE IS: **WHEN TREES ARE CUT DOWN, LESS OXYGEN IS AVAILBLE AND MORE CARBON DIOXIDE IS LEFT FLOATING IN THE AIR.** Everyone knows, or should know, that trees produce oxygen. Oxygen is what allows all living things to breath and without it we would die immediatly. When we exhale, we produce carbon dioxide, which is the oxygen for all plants. In return when plants exhale, then exhale oxygen. According to [|this website] carbon dioxide is being distributed over the earth's surface at a concentration of about 0.033% or 330 ppm. Too much carbon dioxide and not enough trees will and possible lead to global warming, which will then eventually heat up the Earth until it is very hot.