Deforestation
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has many ethical implications that are mostly negative with only a few being positive. Throughout history the Amazon rainforest has been going through massive deforestation which has affected untold numbers of animal species and humans in the region. Normally to the benefit of the humans and to the detriment of the animals. The purpose of this paper is to being to light the ethical implications starting with some history of the topic, then moving to the positives, and ending with the negatives of the ethicality of deforestation in the region continuing.
The History
There is a long history of human kind deforesting the amazon rainforest for a number of reasons. In the past it was primarily for the gains of farm land so families could feed themselves, carving out a home for themselves. “These farmers where called subsistence farmers” (Butler, 2017) and the term subsistence is important as this style of farming is very different from what is happing today in the amazon. Subsistence farming is defined as “farming whose products are intended to provide for the …show more content…
The land at this point is no longer being lived with in harmony and this is a terrible thing as back in history it was ethically ok for a farmer to live in harmony with the land, helping the land to improve while providing for a family. Today; however, the land is just being destroyed and threatening very unique species of animals that we don’t know about or could learn from if the land was maintained. These losses in animal diversity out weights the benefits of the agriculture that is produced on this land for the human population as the damage that is done on this scale cannot be easily undone. In many cases the destruction cannot be undone which is why it is a bad thing to deforest the Amazon rainforest in the way we are
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has many ethical implications that are mostly negative with only a few being positive. Throughout history the Amazon rainforest has been going through massive deforestation which has affected untold numbers of animal species and humans in the region. Normally to the benefit of the humans and to the detriment of the animals. The purpose of this paper is to being to light the ethical implications starting with some history of the topic, then moving to the positives, and ending with the negatives of the ethicality of deforestation in the region continuing.
The History
There is a long history of human kind deforesting the amazon rainforest for a number of reasons. In the past it was primarily for the gains of farm land so families could feed themselves, carving out a home for themselves. “These farmers where called subsistence farmers” (Butler, 2017) and the term subsistence is important as this style of farming is very different from what is happing today in the amazon. Subsistence farming is defined as “farming whose products are intended to provide for the …show more content…
The land at this point is no longer being lived with in harmony and this is a terrible thing as back in history it was ethically ok for a farmer to live in harmony with the land, helping the land to improve while providing for a family. Today; however, the land is just being destroyed and threatening very unique species of animals that we don’t know about or could learn from if the land was maintained. These losses in animal diversity out weights the benefits of the agriculture that is produced on this land for the human population as the damage that is done on this scale cannot be easily undone. In many cases the destruction cannot be undone which is why it is a bad thing to deforest the Amazon rainforest in the way we are