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If a tree falls in the woods and no one?s there to hear it, does it make a sound? Or rather, if a tree falls in the woods and no one?s there to hear it, does anybody even care? This saying epitomizes the world?s current view on deforestation, most notably in the Brazilian Amazon, which is known as ?The Lungs of the Earth.? Deforestation is defined as the long-term or permanent removal of forest cover, usually accompanied by burning, which is then converted to a non-forested land use. Deforestation doesn?t just affect the indigenous people living in the Amazon or on a grander scale, the people of South America; rather, it arguably affects the entire world. More than 12 percent of the 2 million square miles of Brazilian Amazonian rainforest, which produces one-fifth of the earth?s oxygen, has been deforested and converted to farmland or grazing for cattle (www.rainforest.org). This may not sound like that large of a problem, but as a result of deforestation, Brazil now......

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Title: Deforestation
Approximate Word Count: 1059
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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