“Swallowing Rain Forest, Cities Surge in Amazon” by Simon Romero, published in New York Times on November 24 2012, argues that the impact of increase of population has caused deforestation. Romero’s ideas that Brazil has increased population has caused deforestation, energy projects bring in more people due to increase of jobs and an iron ore mine has also created more jobs are important points; his ideas that migrants moving to the jungle will repair jungle, birthrate has gone down in Brazil and 2 houses are built every hour are less useful because people moving in will cause more deforestation, the birthrate should be a little less but not will not decrease dramatically and houses can’t be built that quickly. I think this is a worthy article because it relates to Manaus and how in the State of Wonder the population has increased.
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While trees are being taken down and used to build, the birds in Brazil lose their homes. Without these birds, the seeds of the trees don’t get disbursed thus even less trees. “The change is the result of a domino effect that begins with human agriculture and hunting, which have devastated large bird populations in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. With these birds, which include colorful tocans and cotingas, locally extinct or barely hanging on, the palm trees have no way to disperse their largest seeds. As a result, seed sizes are smaller in parts of the rain forest where large birds are missing, finds a new study detailed in the May 31 issue of the journal Science.” (Pappas) Without trees, the forest in Brazil will continue to decrease more and more. In the book State of Wonder, the main character Marina visits the jungle. The tribe that lives there has built houses in the jungle. As the tribe has more children, the more need for shelter. As long as the population continues to grow the more
While trees are being taken down and used to build, the birds in Brazil lose their homes. Without these birds, the seeds of the trees don’t get disbursed thus even less trees. “The change is the result of a domino effect that begins with human agriculture and hunting, which have devastated large bird populations in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. With these birds, which include colorful tocans and cotingas, locally extinct or barely hanging on, the palm trees have no way to disperse their largest seeds. As a result, seed sizes are smaller in parts of the rain forest where large birds are missing, finds a new study detailed in the May 31 issue of the journal Science.” (Pappas) Without trees, the forest in Brazil will continue to decrease more and more. In the book State of Wonder, the main character Marina visits the jungle. The tribe that lives there has built houses in the jungle. As the tribe has more children, the more need for shelter. As long as the population continues to grow the more