crowded malls, mounds of wrappings, and excessive consumption. Over half of America will not recycle wrapping paper or question buying products that promote deforestation. It now makes me sad to walk through the malls and see how people wastefully spend. But this is utter bliss for logging and wood dependent companies as well as the government because it is helping the economy. Is it worth it? Definitely not. They are not stopping to think about the environmental consequences. The government is choosing to ignore them. Economic growth in the demand for paper and lumber materials are forcing deforestation to continue to take places. Recycling is only one way to help this sub type of a problem. Some Americans do not even commit to this environmentally essential task. It is very devastating to realize the ignorance amongst Americans on this specific subject. A paradigm affect within capitalism. Once this is accepted by societies the problem of deforestation is ignored. It is the way we see the world and to change those views is hard to comprehend for Americans. With the expansion of people and the continuing lack of education on the environment, this problem will continue to persist and cause a chain affect in damages to the earth.America’s forests are very scarce as we approach the twenty-first century. According to The National Academy of Sciences, “Seventy eight million acres of forests (an area twice the size of the state of Washington) are leveled each year,” (Chiras 212). The main source of this is the consumer demand. Paper companies use thousands upon thousands of trees to produce all of their goods. Paper production is not even being slowed down. Recycling is helpful but it is not close to the level that it should be. What are companies doing to rectify this situation? They continue to feed America false information so that the economy does not plummet. They are only increasing the value of material objects and...
