The article I chose was about
Brazilian Deforestation. The article describes how Brazil has to make a
decision over a “common.” This is an example of a tragedy of commons because it
is a resource that will go away if everyone continues to act the way they do.
We consume way too much wood and wood products. If you look around your room,
you can see so many objects and goods made out of wood. With this consumption
rate we have, the rain forest in Brazil and around the world are going to cease
to exist. Without trees, carbon dioxide will
become more and more abundant and oxygen will become less abundant. This will
cause many other environmental problems besides the two listed above. The forest is a common area and we are taking
it over without any care. Without this care, the forest will go away and
eventually so will we.
There are many solutions that can
be proposed and used to help with this tragedy of commons. One solution is
selective cutting. Selective cutting is to only cut trees that are mature
enough to be used. This would allow baby trees to grow and develop and would
always have trees in the ground. Another solution is to stop cutting trees down.
This would hurt the economy but would help grow back our forests. We could cut
for one year and then stop cutting for three years. This would allow trees to
grow and help out the environment.
Another solution would be to find out how to make more synthetic wood.
This would allow us to still cut wood but a lot less. With less wood being cut
means more trees growing and the environment would become stronger.
The solution I believe that would
work the best is to cut less wood and find other products to use instead. We
have so many smart people on this earth and such great technology, that we can
come up with other goods to use in place of wood. This would free up keeping
trees in the ground and make the environment better. Besides the obvious ways
of making the environment better, it would also help aesthetics. Many people
are now worried about how their businesses look and many owners like trees.
These trees can help their business and our environment. This is a solution that
I believe will work the best.
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