Deforestation is the primary environmental cost of Southeast Asia's dominance in exports of rubber and palm oil.
Deforestation is the permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides forest and this occurs in the Southern Asia to make room for Rubber and palm oil which are significant in Malaysia, Indonesia, and southern Thailand etc.
Demand for these commodities cause the environmental concerns over deforestation as the main concern in Southern Asia.
<span>The answer to this question is COAL. Coal is used
as a solid fossil fuel that people used the most. Coals are used for
electricity, fuel, and heat. Coals that are mined are brought to power plants
to use it as electricity. Coals are being mined from the ground and the country
China is the world’s top coal producer since 1983.</span>