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Demand for which resource has greatly contributed to the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest?

a.) coal
b.) diamonds
c.) lumber
d.) oil

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Lumber

In the Amazon, industrial-scale cattle ranching and soybean production for world markets are increasingly important causes of deforestation, and in Indonesia, the conversion of tropical forest to commercial palm tree plantations to produce bio-fuels for export is a major cause of deforestation on Borneo and Sumatra.
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Answer:

c

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