What Our Generation Thinks about How Deforestation Will Affect Their Future Jobs

I sent out surveys to current college students, asking them about what their majors are and what their thoughts are about how deforestation will affect their future job prospect. These college students ranged from Freshmen to Seniors, and from Colleges around the United States of America. This is what the surveys concluded:

First Survey

As we can see, the sample size of this survey is 25 people. Majors varied from Business, Biomedical Science, Computer Science, Political Science, Psychology, to Engineering. Out of all these, Accounting and Civil Engineering are the most popular.

Second Survey

The second survey demonstrated that out of the 26 respondents, 42.3% argues that deforestation has minimal impact towards their future job prospect, 38.5% argues that it has moderate impact towards their future job prospect, and 19.2% argues that it has a high impact towards their future job prospect. We can break it down even more by looking through individual responses:

Individual Responses

I have taken one response from each major and displayed them below:

Results

As we can see, the general trend among these responses isthat liberal art majors (ex. Communications) and interdisciplinary majors (ex. criminal Justice)tend to find deforestation have little impact on their future job prospects, while stem majors (Ex. Civil Engineering)tend to find deforestation have a drastic impact on their future job prospects.

Their reasonings are quite understandable: Civil Engineering will obviously place deforestation as an important factor, because, well, they literally use wood for most of their construction plannings. While majors like Communications seem to have no connection with physical materials like wood.

THINK AGAIN

While liberal art and interdisciplinary majors seem like they have no direct connection with the effect of deforestation at all,the indirect effect does exist and it goes way beyond the surface. Take Liberal Art majors like psychology and communications for example: These majors tend to not have a specific job upon graduating, but rather they go into jobs like business, marketing, and public relations. When considering whether deforestation have an impact on those fields of studies, the impact is immense and will inevitably have a ripple effect on fields connected to them.

Conclusion

While I must admit that the effect of deforestation does have a heavier impact on certain fields than others, the effect of deforestation certainly has at least a moderate extent of impact on every field of studies in the future.