Deforestation

See w:deforestation.

Deforestation is a bad thing and figures in some worst cases. Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine how threats could exist, other than "all forests disappear and all things on Earth die as a direct result". (Some people would believe even that, making it a worst case, not a dystopia.

Charcoal and tantallum are things whose creation often cause deforestation. When they do, this makes the charcoal and tantallum also bad things, as the comprehensive outcome of their production is beyond what is acceptable for a healthy buying infrastructure.

"Policy and market failure alone cannot explain rapid deforestation, concludes Sven Wunder (Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen), and finds that with current technologies, market prices, and disparate stakeholder interests, natural forest uses in Ecuador tend to yield less income than alternative land uses, mainly agro-pastoral. The only effect curb on deforestation, he says, would be payments for global forest benefits as an integral element of conservation incentives on the ground" [1]