Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Deforestation
- Timber
- cutting down trees for building material
- more houses and buildings
- bigger population
- more food needed for more people
- wood like mahogony
- less oxygen
- co2
- global warming
- flooding
- Space for cattle ranching
- Cattle ranching
- it takes 50 trees to grow 1 cow
- more food
- meat
- beef
- wider selection of meat products on the market in MEDC's
- more houses needed for more farmers
- more timber
- villages in the rainforest
- attracts tourists
- Mining resources
- for building material, electricity and jewellery
- They are mining coal, sapphires and bauxite
- coal to make electricity and fire
- sapphires to make mostly jewellery and other products
- wider selection of jewellery products
- bauxite is used in cement, chemicals, face makeup, soft drink cans, dishwashers, sisding for houses and other aluminum products
- Hydro-electric power
- for less polluting electricity
- They are building a dam so the water from the river can go through a tube to make electricity without producing co2
- the dam could break or overflow
- millions of trees would be flooded causing lots of co2 and pollution
- 20 football pitches of rainforest are cut down every minute!