The introduction stated that 2 football fields (globally) worth of rainforest were being destroyed every second, of course different times of the day maybe higher or lower, but that’s what it averages to be.  150 (0.234) square miles acres are being destroyed per minute, if your house and yard is five eighths of an acre, that would be about 480 times the area of your house and yard.  About 214,000 acres (334.375 square miles) is destroyed a day, that would be 342,400 times the size of your house if it was that size.  Then in a year the amount of rainforest being destroyed (globally) would be a whole 78,000,000 acres (121875 square miles)!  That’s larger than the country of Poland, and if your house and yard was ten sixteenths of an acre that would be 249,600,000 time the size of it.

There are still better ways to make a living, but you have to know how it will affect the rainforest.  One example of doing that wrong is harnessing the power of the Amazon River using a dam.  Energy is always in demand, and the Amazon River is one of the most powerful rivers in the world, so if you build a dam there then you get lots of it.  But the dams are flooding the river and the Amazon Rain Forest making animals lose their homes.  You or anyone else can use the rivers to make a profit without destroying anything, by giving boat tours probably not on the intense river though, but on one of its peaceful tributaries surrounded by bugs birds fish and monkeys.  It would be more helping than hurting the rain forest when they inform their tourist customers about the endangered animals.