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TASK: Read The English Text and Answer The Questions.: Deforestation

The text discusses the primary causes of deforestation in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. It states that while population growth contributes to rainforest destruction, the main drivers are clearing land for commercial cash crops for export and commercial logging operations, not subsistence farming or landless peasants. Each year, commercial logging eliminates 45,000 square kilometers of forest, much of the timber exported to the US and Japan. Deforestation is also linked to cattle ranching for beef export to meet demands in affluent societies in North America, Europe, and Japan.

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TASK: Read The English Text and Answer The Questions.: Deforestation

The text discusses the primary causes of deforestation in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. It states that while population growth contributes to rainforest destruction, the main drivers are clearing land for commercial cash crops for export and commercial logging operations, not subsistence farming or landless peasants. Each year, commercial logging eliminates 45,000 square kilometers of forest, much of the timber exported to the US and Japan. Deforestation is also linked to cattle ranching for beef export to meet demands in affluent societies in North America, Europe, and Japan.

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TASK : Read the English text and answer the questions.

Deforestation
Population growth is one factor in rainforest destruction. However, it is a myth to assume that
the expansion of subsistence agriculture to feed more mouths is the main factor. The majority
of deforestation in Latin America, South-east Asia and the Pacific is caused by clearing land
to grow cash crops for export and by commercial logging operations, and not by “shifting”
cultivators or landless peasants. Each year commercial logging eliminates 45000 square
kilometers of forest, much of the timber being exported to the United States and Japan.

No clearer connection between deforestation and the demands of affluent societies can be
found than in Central America and Brazil, where tropical forest has been converted to grazing
land because cattle raising offers export earnings that help with external debt payments.
These heavy payments, which affect the poor the most, have arisen largely from external
loans taken out to finance the purchase of luxury items and arms by military and governing
elite. The establishment of large ranch-style cattle grazing properties is the principal reason
for the elimination of 20000 square kilometers of rainforest each year in Central or South
America. The cleared land is mainly devoted to the export of beef for the fast-food industries
in North America, Europe and Japan- the aptly named „hamburger connection‟.

1. What is the author’s purpose of writing this text?

2. What is the text about?

3. How many times have you read the text to understand it completely?

4. Do you have any difficulty in finding the Vietnamese meaning of the English words :
subsistence agriculture, cash crops, commercial logging operations, shifting cultivators,
landless peasants, affluent society, external debt payment, military and governing elites,
ranch-style cattle grazing property, hamburger connection ?

5. Do you have any difficulty in finding the equivalent Vietnamese structures of the
following English sentences?

a. However, it is a myth to assume that the expansion of subsistence agriculture to feed more
mouths is the main factor.

b. No clearer connection between deforestation and the demands of affluent societies can be
found than in Central America and Brazil, where tropical forest has been converted to
grazing land because cattle raising offers export earnings that help with external debt
payments.

6. Translate the text into Vietnamese.

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