Is deforestation viable? No!

The next big issue, deforestation.

Their habitat is threatened by deforestation.

So clearly there was a problem with deforestation.

Thus, deforestation reduces the plants that store CO2.

And here the light green are areas of massive deforestation.

Every year we lose 50 thousand square miles in deforestation.

It just became big, heavy deforestation and an environmental problem.

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

And finally, there's deforestation, and there's emission of methane from agriculture.

Now I actually think that these ideas will change the economics of deforestation.

We've done this for a very difficult case, which was for deforestation in China.

And we don't have any industry at all it's only because of this deforestation.

Eighteen percent of our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is the result of deforestation.

The deforestation, especially for oil palm, to provide biofuel for Western countries is what's causing these problems.

You can take virtually any parameter that matters for human well being nitrous oxide, methane, deforestation, overfishing

Hold on, this isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation or the building of a dam.

I'm going to skip through some of the objections because I don't have answers to why there's deforestation.

Green carbon, which is the deforestation and agricultural emissions, and blue carbon together comprise 25 percent of our emissions.

Most agricultural emissions come from tropical deforestation, methane from animals and rice fields, and nitrous oxide from over fertilizing.

The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.

They're cutting down on deforestation, and they've found a fuel supply that is inexhaustible, infinite and free at the point of production.

But this kind of fishbone pattern of deforestation is something we notice a lot of around the tropics, especially in this part of the world.

These are the 15 commodities that fundamentally pose the biggest threats to these places because of deforestation, soil loss, water use, pesticide use, over fishing, etc.

We have the means already in our hands, through a structure, through a mechanism, called REDD Plus a scheme for the reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

And we're using you can see that I'm not really into this kind of stuff but we're using satellite imagery to look at the deforestation in the area.

Ocean pollution, global warming and deforestation are driving us towards the next great mass extinction and the meat industry is the greatest negative factor in all of these phenomena.

For example, why is it that in the Pacific, of those hundreds of Pacific islands, why did Easter Island end up as the most devastating case of complete deforestation?

At the moment, Europe depends on importing millions of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to global warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe.

And in the case of the Viking Norse, the Vikings inadvertently caused soil erosion and deforestation, which was a particular problem for them because they required forests to make charcoal, to make iron.

And he's brought the internet and satellite technology to the forest both so that people themselves could monitor the deforestation, but also that he could speak from the forest to the rest of the world.

Now, there are ecological reasons for eating lower on the food chain too, whether it's the deforestation of the Amazon, or making more protein available, to the four billion people who live on a dollar a day not to mention whatever ethical concerns people have.

In countries with deforestation issues, we need to find a way to provide better value for the forest and actually encourage people to make money through very fast growth cycles 10 , 12 , 15 year old trees that make these products and allow us to build at this scale.

We see deforestation we see the desert spreading we see massive hunger we see disease and we see population growth in areas where there are more people living on a certain piece of land than the land can possibly support, and they're too poor to buy food from elsewhere.