The rainforests

So this is my first blog of many on the topic of sustainable development and I hope that you find this as interesting as I hope I will find it. The ideas of sustainable development have been around for a while now but there are many conflicting ideas about what we must do to save the planet as it stands today but there are many who don’t see the current situation in the world as one of danger while there are others who believe that we have gone too far and there is no way that we can save the planet as us humans have already done too much damage over the last 200 and last couple of thousand years. I have read an article today (link below) which was published by the BBC that says that there are now countries in the world such as Indonesia that are trying to save parts of their rainforest from further destruction but there are problems as these countries as they are developing countries and they need these resources that are found in these rainforests such as wood and it will be unlikely that there will be much change as they simply will not be able to stop all people trying to drain these resources from these areas. In the past centuries all the so called ‘developed’ worlds such as America and Europe have destroyed vast acres of land for development and resources and it still goes on in places like Brazil where they are losing a rainforest the size of Wales on a regular basis. The idea of saving species is a very different concept but there is still issues as we have lost loads of species over the past century like the Dodo the Auk and the Tasmanian Wolf and it seems that now people believe that what species we have left can be saved but I am a pessimistic person and I believe that there will be little change to the situation and I believe that the situation will have little effect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7662186.stm