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Tropical forests, especially in southest Asia and the Amazon River Basin, are being destroyed at an alarming rate for timber, conversion to crop and grazing lands, pine plantations, and settlements. According to researcher Howard Facklam, "It was estimated at one point in the 1980s that such forest lands were being cleared at the rate of 20 (nearly 50 acres) a minute; another estimate put the rate at more than 200,000 sq km (more than 78,000 sq mi) a year...
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In 1993, satellite data provided the rate of deforestation could result in the extinction of as many as 750,000 species , which would mean the loss of a muliplicity of products: food, fibers, medical drungs, dyes, gums, and resins" (53). So what kind of condition will the forests be in in the year 2050? If this rate of deforestation continues, there will be no tropical rain forest in the year 2050...
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