Topic > Innovation and Sustainability - 469

Human habits of producing goods such as clothing, housing and food have had a serious impact on natural resources and social development. Forests are cleared, trees are cut down for lumber for houses and buildings, lands are cultivated and cleared for crops and livestock (Turk & T. Bensel, 2011). If not monitored, controlled and barriers are not maintained, continuing to harvest the earth's resources to produce and produce the goods humans seek will damage landscapes and ecosystems beyond repair. An example of resources such as timber to build housing and expand urban areas, which also use land, causes deforestation. Although deforestation meets human needs, it also has overwhelming and painful consequences, such as the extinction of plants and animals and climate change that causes global and social conflicts (Turk & Bensel, 2011). In an effort to control the rate at which forests are disappearing in one county, Brazil in 1998 imposed a two-year ban on cutting mahogany across much of the Amazon ("BRASILIA, Brazil," 1998). Brazil imposed a ban that the country managed to limit too much...