Deforestation in example sentence

This has driven up food prices and caused tens of millions of people to starve, while costing more than $17 billion each year in subsidies and causing agricultural deforestation elsewhere in the world, with more total CO2 emissions than the entire savings from the ethanol.

More example sentences with word deforestation

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

We see deforestation; we see the desert spreading; we see massive hunger; we see disease and we see population growth in areas where there are more people living on a certain piece of land than the land can possibly support, and they're too poor to buy food from elsewhere.

We've done this for a very difficult case, which was for deforestation in China.

So clearly there was a problem with deforestation.

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