Our forests are being cut

[Vinod Kuriakose]

 Dear Friends,

 

Our forests are being cut, green cover is going down and water and air pollution is going up and this is going to be very harmful for all of us and especially for the coming generations.

 

The problem is that small communities and villages need to develop land in order to farm or they will all starve and die. The UN is reluctant to punish people for just trying to survive. Aid sent to these poor communities is often seized by warlords and so the people have nothing. Overpopulation contributes to the destruction of natural habitats because the farmers need more children to get more of the work done to make it easier on themselves and the rest of their families. Currently there is no known good solution known to experts that works and is being used.

 

The effects of human related deforestation can be mitigated through environmentally sustainable practices that reduce permanent destruction of forests or even act to preserve and rehabilitate disrupted forestland.

Efforts to stop or slow deforestation have been attempted for many centuries because it has long been known that deforestation can cause environmental damage sufficient in some cases to cause societies to collapse. In some countries, governments developed policies designed to prevent conflicts between short-term gains from converting forest to farmland and long-term problems forest loss would cause, whilst during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Tokugawa Japan the shoguns developed a highly sophisticated system of long-term planning to stop and even reverse deforestation of the preceding centuries through substituting timber by other products and more efficient use of land that had been farmed for many centuries.

 

It is time INDIA adopted long-term planning to stop or prolong deforestation. This is a very important issue which needs immediate attention and action from all of us.

 

Regards,
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Vinod Kuriakose
http://vinodk.page.tl

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