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Every year forests four times the size of Switzerland are lost because of clearing and degradation. In the 1980s, an average of 38 million acres of tropical forest were destroyed each year, those trends have shown no signs of decreasing in the 1990s. Subsistence farming, unsustainable logging, unsound development of large-scale industrial projects, and national policies that distort markets and subsidize forest conversion to other uses are causing deforestation worldwide, from Cambodia to Colombia, from Cameroon to Western Canada and the Western United States.
The loss of forests has major implications for the world. Forests are home to 70 percent of all land-living animals and plants. They replenish the Earth’s atmosphere and provide the planet with fresh air by storing carbon and producing oxygen. They help filter pollution out of the water and protect against flooding, mudslides and erosion. Forests provide timber, medicines, food, and jobs.
The United States has an enormous stake in the sustainable management of the world’s forests. We are a major forest products importer and exporter. Our growing pharmaceutical and food processing industries have a vested interest in protecting the source materials for new medicines, pharmaceuticals, and food additives. Forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide lower the rate of global climate change.
The President of the United States has committed to the goal of achieving sustainable management of our forests by the year 2004. And the State Department and other agencies have been working closely with our global partners to slow deforestation around the world.
Document from the US State Department (with adaptations).
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The text can be associated with the following statement: The leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations.
Outras questões do mesmo concurso: IRBr / Diplomata / 2004
