"The ship industry of England was also responsible for deforestation in India." Give one reason.

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England at that time was a naval superpower, so it required huge amount of timber for making ships and and other allied activities related to ship industry. On the other hand, rapid colonisation carried out by the britishers in other part of the world required them to transport industrial raw material...
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England at that time was a naval superpower, so it required huge amount of timber for making ships and and other allied activities related to ship industry. On the other hand, rapid colonisation carried out by the britishers in other part of the world required them to transport industrial raw material from the colonies to Britain which required them to invest heavily on Commercial ship making. Hence, based on these two points, we can conclude that Ship Industry was one of the factors responsible for deforestration in India. read less
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Ships require timber for their body and also wood and coal for fuel. Thus before the 20th century ships were in some part responsible for deforestation.
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