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Africa’s Charcoal Economy Is Cooking. The Trees Are Paying.

Africa’s Charcoal Economy Is Cooking. The Trees Are Paying. | Human Interest | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - September 21, 2016 7:07 AM
In Madagascar, the booming charcoal business is contributing to deforestation and may exacerbate the effects of global warming.
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Launceston College Geography's curator insight, June 13, 2017 9:51 PM

Deforestation drivers
Alex Smiga's curator insight, August 9, 2017 9:41 AM
If we know that furthering education and economic opportunities will help alleviate the problems present here, why aren't we as a planet seeing that they are implemented? 
brielle blais's curator insight, May 1, 2018 10:23 PM
Charcoal has become the unlikely hero of the informal economy of Africa. This is a positive for the economy. However, this is not a positive for the environment. Deforestation has become a large issue since the boom of more people using charcoal. This will speed up the issue of climate change. This post shows the negative and positives a product can have involving geography.
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Cutting Haiti's Forests

From www.youtube.com - June 2, 2016 12:51 PM
The major environmental problem facing Haiti's biodiversity is explained, including video of tree-cutting within a national park.
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chao pan's curator insight, June 15, 2017 6:50 PM

a good video to show how human activity negatively impacts the ecosystem. I will use this video in phase three
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