Is deforestation viable? No!

The next big issue, deforestation.

It could destroy the Great Bear Rainforest, the largest temperate rainforest in the world.

Their habitat is threatened by deforestation.

Rainforest Crunch was on the shelves.

So clearly there was a problem with deforestation.

Thus, deforestation reduces the plants that store CO2.

And the Great Bear Rainforest is generally considered to be the largest coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem in the world.

like the Amazon rainforest you're hearing behind me.

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.

The sun and a damp climate made the tropical rainforest.

It may be the next rainforest, in terms of pharmaceuticals.

Since I'm already in the tropics, I chose Tropical rainforest.

I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest.

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

Thousands of hectares of tropical rainforest are being lost every day.

Most accidents, after all, happen around the corner, not in the rainforest.

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

So I said, Well, you've got to make a rainforest ice cream.

loss of rainforest and woodland, increases in domesticated land, and species exinctions.

When I was a kid, it was more than 50 percent rainforest.

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

She said, why don't you put back the rainforest that was here before?

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.

So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

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

I was born on a farm, a farm that was more than 50 percent rainforest still .

I was doing fieldwork in the Costa Rican rainforest, and things have changed dramatically for me.

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.

You're talking about biodensities and biodiversity, again, higher than the rainforest that just springs back to life.

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.

When we received the land, it was less than half a percent rainforest, as in all my region.

And he was killed because he was protecting his people from the big farmers and the companies that are taking over the rainforest and destroying the rainforest and that are destroying the habitat of the native Indian people here in Brazil.

Jodi Lomask, and her wonderful troupe Capacitor, joined me in the canopy in my rainforest site in Costa Rica.

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.