These trees are cut down into small pieces to make cardboard for the selfish needs of society. A massive amount of women have been on birth control and one of the major components of the pill is diosgenin. This is made from wild yams that come from Mexico. This draws the conclusion that the technology today might not be as advanced without the rain forest. But in saying that much then the at the same time the technology that we are developing today are having the opposite effect on the source of the advancement.
The destruction of the rain forest is a real problem in the world today because of technological advancements. Since the technology movement has come upon us, more and more wood and resources have been taken from the land. The loss of the forest was not a great concern to the world 100, 50 or 30 years ago. This is because there was not the technology to get into and use the resources from. Each time a tree is cut down, an animal's home is gone. In each hectare of the rain forest there may be homes to possibly two hundred animals. The sudden change in the rain forest can directly be related to the technology being invented presently. So many people are interested in saving the world with medicines, that they have forgotten that their cures cause problems of their own. .
When looking and searching for cures to the killer diseases of this time many scientists look to the rain forest for help. What is not realized is that each time a tree is cut down, the medicinal plants, the cures to these diseases are coming down with it. Much technology had been developed to try to find a cure for AIDS but what if that cure has already been slashed and burned? No one knows, and if the rain forest is not protected properly no one will ever know. The "greenhouse effect" affects us as a problem that must be saved in order to save the globe. The rain forest also affects all the people of the world by holding the carbon dioxide.