Why are people cutting down the rainforest? Don people care about the animals they ruin?
The people who are cutting down parts of the rain forest are not evil. There are, of course, a few bad apples who don’t care about anyone but themselves, but in general the people of the Amazon rain forest are good people who are just trying to get by. It is important to distinguish between the indigenous (or native) people of the rain forest and the “civilized” people who live in the rain forest. The natives may also be cutting down parts of the forest, but there aren’t very many of them and the impact they have on forest is less than the larger number of forest dwellers who do not live by the ancient cultural traditions of the natives. Some of the people don’t really understand the long term damage that they are doing and others understand, but, in order to care for their families, feel that they must continue doing what they are doing. Much of the destruction of the rain forest is done to make room for a kind of farming called shifting agriculture. This kind of farming is very diffe
