Environmental Ethics

Environmental ethics is a major debate among environmentalists and other political figures.  One major subtopic of environmental ethics is clear cutting forests.  Clear cutting has become a major topic of debate and their are opposing viewpoints on it.  Trees provide many things for humans including paper, but forests are sometimes clear cut for other reasons as well.  One of these reasons is expansion and development.  Anyone who has lived in the RDU area for many years knows that the entire area has changed significantly over the past few decades.  Cary used to be huge masses of forests and mostly dirt roads, and now it is an extremely populated suburban area.  Things everywhere are changing, and builders need to take some responsibility for their actions.  There are other ways to build and expand other and clear cutting everything in your way.  It is important that some trees are left behind and new trees be planted.  Clear cutting is an issue and needs to be stopped.  When it comes to clear cutting for resources there are better ways to go about it like patch cutting, strip cutting, and clear cutting with reserves.  These are methods that need to be implemented everywhere in order to slow the effects of clear cutting.