Deforestation

What is your opinion or feelings on the subject of deforestation?  I am getting ready to do a paper on the subject and would like to see how people feel.  I have learned so much on the topic in the last couple days that it is making my head spin already.  The biggest thing that I found out is that just like we pay for water eventually we will have to pay countries like Brazil and Africa not to cut down their trees.  That means we or perhaps our kids will have to pay for fresh air.  Crazy when you think about it, but those trees are the filters and what protects us from the green house gases, and gives us oxygen.  For now they are cutting and clearing forests like crazy, with modern technology things are more efficient, effective, and productive.  From 6 acres to 20 in a day.  The land is being developed on or farmed on.  Erosion occurs, and when the trees are all gone, the people who moved to those areas to have a better life,  no longer have food, money, or other resources to live.  The area become towns of poverty and famine all over again.