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Basically /every/ large-scale industry causes environmental harm. The question is to what extent. The issue with climate change is that this is one of the thin
by likpok 18y ago
Basically /every/ large-scale industry causes environmental harm. The question is to what extent.
The issue with climate change is that this is one of the things we think may have caused mass extinctions. So your number seems to be off by a few orders of magnitude.
- electromagnetic 18y agoThe rainforest houses 80% of all the worlds species, how can deforestation not cause more ecological harm than global warming? I don't think my figures are off at all. over 20 million species at risk is accurate and deforestation will make easily 90% of them endangered because only a small amount thrive in different environments. Not to mention, cutting down rainforests causes global warming to begin with so what's the point of reducing oil consumption if we're going to cause global warming by hacking down trees and thus reducing the worlds ability to remove CO2 and yes rainforests are responsible for 28% of all the worlds oxygen recycling. Only around 20% of the worlds wood is harvested from sustainable forests, which means for this not to harm the environment sustainable forest use would have to be ramped up five-fold to meet present consumption. Not to mention the estimated demand for lumber is still increasing, meaning it would take around 6-7 times the present sustainable forests to cope with global demand by around 2020. Increasing demand through 'wood plastics' would make this even worse.
- johngunderman 18y agoThe product they are using to make this plastic is a byproduct of making paper. This does not necessarily mean more deforestation, just that paper-making will now generate other useful products.