Forests not disappearing

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Deforestation in Madagascar
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All over the world humans struggle to provide themselves with food, housing, and comfortable lives, while preserving the natural environment so that it can continue to sustain animals, plants, and other living things, including humans. Such struggles come into sharp focus on islands, such as Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, where resources are clearly limited and human population continues to grow.

 

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Perhaps we should, as Canadians, urge our representatives at the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons to legislate such that exports of raw resources are unlawful—in exemplia, resources must be refined within Canada, and the finished product out of the refining process may then be exported.

That would be a major blow to our economy, as resource exports constitute a major part of it. We cannot compete with countries such as China for much of the worlds manufacturing or we would already be doing it, as we are with lumber. Banning exports of raw logs sounds good, but it wouldn't result in any more manufacturing jobs here, it would only shut down the logging industry that supplies those exports. I do agree with a certain amount of restriction on the export of raw materials. For example, our own industry must have first access to them. In addition, any product that is subject to duties or taxes as our lumber is must result in an equivalent export tax on the raw materials to any country that levies such duties.