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In your own words, explain how growing urbanization leads to deforestation

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Growing urbanization can lead to deforestation mainly in two ways. When people move from rural areas to the cities they tend to consume in a higher rate, because the ways of living in cities are different from those in rural areas. For people to consume more and to attend their urban needs (which includes electricity, piped water, constructions, etc), there is a need to extract more materials from nature that will be used in the processes that will make those things available. The second major impact of urbanization on deforestation is that the cities need to grow, and they grow taking land from natural forests and such. So, deforestation occurs to give place to the constructions and infrastructure needed in urban cities.

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