Why is it that place after place, sea after sea, landscape after landscape, we over-fish the sea, deforest the landscape to an extent that it's very difficult to bring it back?What is it about us that makes us so bad at taking care of the natural world?
Many of us can feel helpless when we look at the huge problems facing the Earth today. Deforestation, plastic pollution, and the extinction of entire species. The easy solution is just to wait around and hope someone else will do something about it.
And contrary to a story that I am often confronted with that suicide rates are spiking, Deforestation continues. But still it is well past its peak and with the right efforts could continue to come down.
And in some regions, like in northern Nigeria, that deforestation rate climbs to over 11% per year. Deforestation brings with it a cascade of environmental and social problems that include acceleration of desertification. And the loss of watersheds, the loss of habitat.
Death happens. I might should tell you guys, go to Amazonas, and you'll see how much land has been deforested to feed people. Deforestation didn't kill animals. It sterilized one entire ecosystem.
It's the polluting and damaging actions that cost other people real money like those foresters, those deforestation in Thailand from 20 years ago that cost Toyota 3 and 1/2% of its output in 2011. We cannot separate the environmental system from the financial system any more than we can separate our mind and our body.
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That's insane. And then you go down there, and you realize, well, yeah, there are fires for sure. And deforestation is a big problem. But before we just go crazy, and you end up having, like, was it the French prime minister and the Brazilians getting into some infight?
And the reason I went to work in the Amazon was because it was the lungs of the planet. And deforestation was this massive concern at that time, that we thought was contributing and driving a lot of climate change. That's true. But I think what we've learned since is that the-- and just even in the last five years, we're learning more and more about how
So as I mentioned in the beginning, there is a deep connection between forest and human. And deforestation is really a huge problem. However, we have the technology.
I had to slip that in in case you forgot I was Catholic. And deforestation is 17% of emissions released.
But the real cause of the catastrophe was the fact that 15 to 20 years before, in the late '80s and '90s, there was massive deforestation in Thailand. And so there was no ground soil.
But it's really just water flowing out of the jungle into the sea. And so when you deforest -- Madagascar is the worst example, but also the Amazon-- that's something that's forever.
Well, now, we sort of can. But with the deforestation, it, of course, was something that-- you can see this type of drastic image of what we're looking at here. Of course, the cleared area makes settlement surveying, understanding where people lived, how they lived, their houses, and so forth, a lot easier
We lose species. So let's keep what little left that we have to provide a legacy for moving forward and then focus our planting efforts on places that have already been deforested or that are second growth forests. So those are two things in forestry that we need to do.
So if you take all of those greenhouse gas emissions, energy-related CO2 would be 2/3, if not 70%, of that. Then you have deforestation. And then you've got cement and many other smaller sources.
91% of Amazonian deforestation is for animal agriculture, either to create land for livestock to graze or to create land to grow crops for the livestock.
But 80% of deforestation globally is just for meat.
You look at Brazil. Look at why they deforested . Well, they needed to raise a lot of cattle because there are a lot of people up north who want cheap hamburgers.
with gold mining or deforestation.
it's nothing but deforested hillsides, and then all of a sudden, where the national park starts, it's a shear wall of forest canopy.
from higher perspective, directly, actually, from space. The size of deforestation is amazing. This is the photo taken by one of our satellite in New Zealand.
90% of the deforestation happening in the Amazon is occurring to support meat production.
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The cost of this is staggering, globally. It leads to deforestation, climate change, illness, gender-based violence, and even death. And the social costs fall especially hard on the shoulders of women and young girls, who do the cooking and fuel gathering.
exactly as you see in this picture, and as it's shown here. It leads to deforestation, because the need is increasing, the demand is increasing.
They still use things that deforest the rain forest.
We can see when there's illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
They said no more Amazon deforestation.
So this is the main issue with deforestation.
Another big problem in Africa is deforestation.
The continent of Africa is being deforested at about twice the rate of the rest of the planet.
simply because a forest area has been deforested , or a building has been built, or something happened.
whoo well Denmark just banned all deforestation the government of Bolivia came up with something called the
So areas that have been completely deforested are incredibly hot in the dry season, and then literally floating in the wet season.
But just keep in mind that deforestation is not happening everywhere, but it's happening a lot of places.
So you see a lot of deforestation happening.
And it really becomes obvious why the deforestation is slowing down.
This is caused by climate change and deforestation.
And some scientists have calculated that if there was enough deforestation and the Amazon's rain cycle broke, that would actually massively reduce
They worked to restore 264 hectares of previously deforested land planting 360,000 seedlings from 40
this yellow border that you see here. And you see how Mexico is much more deforested than Guatemala. Unfortunately, Guatemala is catching up.
But it's really just water flowing out of the jungle into the sea. But another one that was really disturbing was deforestation.
And so the problems related to the Amazon deforestation and soy farming are directly linked to the animals that we consume.
And it was for too much soy farming in Brazil causing deforestation in the Amazon.
And he reduces approximately 11,000 square feet of deforestation per year.
One of them is definitely demand for wood has changed during the last few years, especially in highly developed countries. But probably the biggest problem is that we are outsourcing deforestation. But it's really hard to say.
It also includes in this number the impact of avoided deforestation that would otherwise happen to grow more corn and soybeans to feed more cows.
And there are also all of the impacts of that deforestation.
more severe than that yeah but like even deforestation even overfishing we're like okay let's like consider our our