Answer to Question #239451 in Geography for Sean

Question

the main causes of and problems with deforestation. Explain the relationship between deforestation and climate change.

Answer 1

The main causes of deforestration is the carbon-dependent society and lack of mechanisms that limit and control industrial deforestration. Often this is related to financial interests of logging, paper, and cellulose corporations and governments.

Deforestration reduces the area covered with trees that consume carbon dioxide, which leads to so-called greenhouse effect. Deforestration increases average temperature in the region.