Questão 14 - FEMA Medicina 2021/2

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Average westerner’s eating habits lead to loss of four trees every year

    The average western consumer of coffee, chocolate, beef, palm oil and other commodities is responsible for the felling of four trees every year, many in wildlife-rich tropical forests, research has calculated.

    Destruction of forests is a major cause of both the climate crisis and plunging wildlife populations, as natural ecosystems are razed for farming. The study is the first to fully link highresolution maps of global deforestation to the wide range of commodities imported by each country across the world.

    The research lays bare the direct links between consumers and the loss of forests across the planet. Chocolate consumption in the UK and Germany is an important driver of deforestation in Ivory Coast and Ghana, the scientists found, while beef and soy demand in the US, European Union and China results in forest destruction in Brazil.

    Consumption in G7 states accounts for an average loss of four trees a year per person, the research says; the US is above average with five trees being lost per capita. In five G7 countries — the UK, Japan, Germany, France, and Italy — more than 90% of their deforestation footprint was in foreign countries and half of this was in tropical nations.

(Damian Carrington. www.theguardian.com, 29.03.2021. Adaptado.)

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