Answer: b. Clear-cutting
Explanation: Clear cutting is a cheap and effective way of harvesting trees or timbers, this methods helps the forest operators to get the best out of a forest at a very reduced cost.
Clear-cutting is bad because removing the whole tree from an area destroys outrightly the natural habitat of most widelife, and it will also lead to the destruction of the eco-system that relies on the forest.
So to me it looks like that into more of the future more people are born in Urban areas and in the Rural areas it looks like it will slowly go down till there is little to none left.
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