Positive Impacts Of Deforestation In The United States

This section examines the major positive impacts of deforestation such as how the country can benefit in terms of its economy, transportation and jobs. Today, because of urbanization many states have to practice deforestation. Through deforestation the government is able to build roads in order to make trade and transportation easier. This strongly improves an area’s accessibility which in turn helps the country’s economy. Also, deforestation increases the economy since it creates more free land. This gives room for things such as buildings, hospitals, schools and so on to be built. It is also a great way to give jobless people the opportunity to be part of the working class. As Marcellus Caldas explains in his article, many farmers in Brazil

Deforestation is a matter of choosing between economy and ecology. This part will be about the negative impacts of deforestation such as how it leads to the loss of biodiversity. A large numbers of terrestrial biodiversity such as insects, animals, and plants live in the Brazilian forest. Clearly, this forest loss has a great impact on humans. The resources and services in this specific area will no longer be available to be exploited. According to Xuhui Lee, drugs will be affected by deforestation since a considerable proportion of drugs are directly or indirectly biological origin of these plants (21). A variety of plants situated in the Brazilian Amazon are used to cure ailments, for example, sap extracted from a liana is used to treat fever in children, 38 other plants are used to treat diarrhea, 25 plants are used to heal headaches, 38 for toothaches, finally, 18 for muscular pains. There is also, dozens more plants that are used for snakebites and as contraceptives. This being said, these medicines will no longer be accessible because of