Slash and burn

Deforestation in Southeast Asia Living in a world where humans don’t destroy the environment should be something people wish to achieve. Deforestation is one of many things that should change because not only does it affects our wildlife but it will eventually affect humans as well. Southeast Asia, specifically, is losing their forests at a very rapid pace mostly due to agricultural activities, logging, and the furniture export market. Therefore, there should be stricter laws put into place and…

The Maya were often misinterpreted as uncivilized people that practiced human sacrifice, bloody rituals, and war. In contrast to European explorers, modern historians see the Maya quite differently in terms of sophistication. Located in Mexico, Belize, Central America, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. The majority of their surroundings was made up of volcanic mountains, scrub plains, and tropical rain forests. This ancient Mesoamerican world lasted for more than 2000 years, and was split…

Research Foundation” states “Additionally, deforestation creates grazing land for cattle, room for commercial, residential, and industrial development and lumber for furniture and construction. While not sustainable or good for the environment, the slash and burn agriculture (the razing of forests with fire for farming) creates land free from weeds, and the ash from the trees provides nutrients for crops.” That is to say, if more trees are getting burnt down for farming, our earth will have…

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Climate change and global warming have always been a concern to humanity. Both have destroy homes and buildings, wasted billions of cash, and it had also altered people’s lifestyles in various ways. Global warming is the cause of the rising temperatures of the world, and that is where climate change takes place. Although awareness towards these continual changes have increased from place to place, the fact that it continues to grow means that the action against it is just not enough. Some of…

Mesoamericans all had similarities in their culture, religion, and social structures, which helped the different countries become unified. In Teotihuacan, which was the most powerful and one of the largest city among the Americas, there was religious architecture built to praise the Sun and Moon, they sacrificed humans for the gods, built irrigation systems, terraces, and used chinampas. Teotihuacan was ruled by alliances formed by multiple elite families or weak kings, due to the fact that they…

The need for products of wood and paper doesn 't seem to be slowing down. When we use the slash and burn method to level out forests, that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Killing and removing living trees from forest dwindles down the quantity of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is an important action that takes carbon dioxide from…

In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond describes the experiences of seafaring Vikings and Polynesians. For each group, Diamond argues that the environment played a key role in these people’s success or failure. In this paper, I will first briefly overview the environment’s role in the Polynesian case of Mangareva and the Viking case of Inuit as recounted in Diamond. I will then examine the sources in chapter 6 of Merry Wiesner’s text, Discovering the Global…

pollution too. However the same smog is going into the animals houses and making them sick. This reflects in human privileges may be going too far. Additionally, according to the Deforestation and desertification in China,”illegal logging and slash and burn agriculture consume up to 5,000 square kilometers of virgin forest every year.”China is chopping down many trees each year to meet their needs,1.3 million cubic meters of timber are cut down each year for disposable chopsticks. Human…

The Mysterious Disappearance of The Mayan Empire; What Caused The Empire To Collapse? The Mayan people are a great fascination. They were creative, original, different and left a great mystery for today’s new world to explore. The Mayans were an ancient native American civilization who were known to be one of the most advanced civilizations in Mesoamerica today. They never progressed past the stone age to have seen advanced inventions like the wheel or other metal work that would have aided…