i didn’t follow the midterm elections, but apparently more pro-enviroment members were elected into congress. environmental issues are among the biggest right now, with threats such as global warming. so i decided to see exactly how the environment is affected by globalization. found out some interesting things…just makes me think maybe we really should start thinking more about the environment and less about the money. many people buy products without thinking about how that product may have or does affect the environment, or what harm the company they are buying from does. take the tropical rainforest and the farming industry, for example. many forests are torn down to be used for farms. rainforests take years and years to create, and are torn down in matter of weeks. the trees are sold to make furniture, and the land sold to farmers. the soil from the rainforests are rather infertile for crops, and crops may only grow for a few years. After those few years, the soil is ruined, the farmer must go and tear down more trees for new land. Many corporations such as McDonalds are involved in this deforestation. For example, the soybeans grown in Brazil that are used to feed the chickens for McDonalds. These soybean farms cause some forest clearing directly, but create more deforestation by taking the cleared land and savanna, making other farmers and ranchers tear down more forest so they have land themselves, according to Philip Fearnside, a member of Brazil’s National Institute for Amazonian Research in Manaus. These soybean farms are also inhumane. In 2005, about 150 farms were raided, and some 4,000 slaves were found, and freed.
Arechicken nuggets really worth it? You don’t want to be supporting a slave system, and the loss of the rain forest would lead to huge problems. without vegetation, there would be no more oxygen. Kinda makes surviving tough…
