Note: Miss Florence please note this is not really part of my assignment and really really doesn't need to be read if you have no time, it is just a thought born into late night cramming after a hard over stuffed week, when tired thoughts take over and become lucid, for a few hours. Sorry. Thanks.
Deforestation is mainly fuelled by money. This is a known and true fact. But perhaps, under all of that the true purpose is just a need for survival, pure animalistic instinct to survive. We'd do anything for our families, including getting a job at an illegal logging business, just to earn money and survive. We can say that if we were thrown into that situation we would be the bigger better person and decline, but truly, few of us would. It is those people who are superhuman, who are able to put everything else aside and just focus, truly focus, on their cause and moral purpose. I'd say Adolf Hitler would be superhuman in this aspect too, being so focussed and so incredible in his pursuit of a pure race. However even he pursued a lavish lifestyle, while it lasted. The question remains though, is this something to be chased, the ultimate goal in life, or the ultimate ruiner, where instead of becoming superhuman, we lose all traces of humanity altogether. Back to the deforestation however, it is, just a instinct to survive. When you are dangling off a cliff, you do not think about what effects the falling rocks will have on the rare nesting birds below, but rather you just scramble to survive. There is no common sense and no future pondering or for the better good. Perhaps this is deforestation, a simple need for survival, as the best, the richest and the most lavish of us all. And perhaps this is why not much is really achieved with deforestation, people will always want to survive, so we need to let them survive without having to kill the environment in the process. However no one dedicated is rich enough to give millions of people a new life and even so some may not want to leave, not when they're so used to their situation. So here I am, after 2 weeks of inquiry, still wrestling with the same issue as at the beginning, trying to look at it from all angles yet everything always points back to one thing. We need to survive.