Monday, August 8, 2011

Question about The Amazon Rainforest. What do you think?

In many ways, the Amazon Rainforest is extremely important.For one, it acts as a huge air conditioning and air filtering system and it helps to regulate the Earth's atmospheric temperature while it recycles Co2 and methane gas. Also, it is the home of one third of all species in the world with tens of thousands of plant species, thousands of animal species, and millions of insect species, which makes it, as an eco-system, unparralelled in its biodiversity. Many important plants used in medicine come from there. Unfortunately, it is continually threatened by loggers and farmers who brazenly ignore the environmental laws as they go about their business of illegally cutting down more and more trees. What are some severe forms of punishment that should be meted out to the worst of those scofflaws? Should the police of the respective countries (that include parts of the Amazon Rainforest) do something as extreme as the Saudis, which is cut off a hand or an arm if they break the law

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