Main points📜
- Sustainable Harvesting ≠ Always Environmentally Friendly
- Just because a resource is harvested sustainably doesn't mean it's free from environmental and social consequences.
- Real-world Example: Fishing sustainably is great, but using destructive fishing methods like dynamite can damage coral reefs, which affects marine biodiversity.
- Loggers & Unsustainable Practices
- Even with sustainable logging, there can be negative impacts.
- Social Impact: Indigenous peoples might lose their food sources.
- Did you know? In the Amazon, indigenous tribes rely on forests for food, shelter, and medicine. When these forests are logged, their way of life can be severely impacted.
- Environmental Impact: Reduced ecological services of forests.
- For Fun: Forests act like the Earth's lungs! They absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Cutting them down reduces their ability to help us breathe easy.
- Hidden Costs in the Supply Chain
- It's not just about the logging or extraction. There are other environmental costs:
- Access roads: Can disrupt local ecosystems and cause habitat fragmentation.
- Transport of resources: Carbon emissions from vehicles add to global warming.
- Processing goods: Factories might pollute water sources or emit greenhouse gases.
- Real-world Example: Think about your wooden desk. It's not just about cutting down the tree. That wood had to be transported, treated, and turned into the desk you use. Every step has an environmental footprint!
