... was estimated at one point in the 1980's that the Amazon basin was being cleared at the rate of 50 acres a minute; another estimate put the rate at 78,000 square miles per year" (53). These are astronomical numbers, to think that is the size of the state Idaho. Such deforestation has an alarming affect, "it means the loss of a multiplicity of ... ...

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... a huge, barren tract of land. 2) Intensive or modern agriculture usage that occurs on a much larger scale - growing of cash crops, cattle ranching does a bigger damage as forests are stripped several square miles at a time that. Large areas of rainforests became cattle pastures for ranchers to grow beef for the world market. In South America countries, cattle ranching for beef export to northern ... ...

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