We live in a deteriorating world, one that is finite, yet we treat it as infinite. People live so carelessly that “between 10 percent and 30 percent of all mammal, bird and amphibian species are threatened with extinction.” (Lowy, 2005) Deforestation ravishes the world taking billions of trees away yearly, leaving the earth with little to no replenishment. The deforestation of the world needs to end. As the caretakers of God’s creation, the people of the world need to purposefully make preserving the environment a priority. We need to come up with new solutions to decrease deforestation. People need to learn to live a life of caring for the earth instead of corrupting it. A new lifestyle must be taken on by everyone in order to do this.
Humans are destroying the world we live in day-by-day. Every day the quality of life is declining due to destruction caused by humanity. It is a sad realization when the way the planet is treated resembles the bedrooms in our houses. Throwing dirty clothes everywhere has become the same way we treat the environment. We act as if we own the world and we can mistreat it as we please. Forests are just a portion of what is being lost daily due to human ignorance. So much so, that we could even lose all of the rain forests in a matter of years. The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. (National Geographic) This is an astonishing statistic, which clearly needs to be dealt with. It is almost unbelievable that huge forests could be completely gone. It is actually not very unbelievable when viewing the statistics of all the paper used every year. NASA articulates “nearly 4 billion trees worldwide are cut down each year for paper, representing...
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“In the time you can read this sentence, eight acres of tropical rain forest will have been bulldozed and burned out of existence” (Bloyd 49). However, this destruction has been neglected and overlooked for years. Many people do not understand the long-term consequences of losing the earth’s rain forests. The rain forests have provided people with many natural resources and medicines. The benefits that rain forests provide to people will be destroyed if the depletion continues to be disregarded.
The natural resource of wood is being used at an unsustainable rate, with minimal effort to change societal views on the depletion of this valuable natural resource. Much of the wood we use today comes from old-growth tropical forests, and in many regions it is harvested illegally. Recently in England, it was revealed that the major department store, Marks&Spencers, made much of its garden furniture out of Nyato wood which was logged illegally from Indonesian rainforests. Looking at this problem from a micro-level orientation, we can clearly see how the actions of individuals in both Britain and Indonesia affect one another.
Deforestation has accumulated many multifaceted controversies over time. The main one, however, is the impact deforestation has on water flow. People have different perceptions on how deforestation affects the flow of water, this lead to a controversy between conservationists and a group of theorists. Many years ago, water was used as a way for almost all the mills to function. Changes in the ecosystem depend on the rate and extent of deforestation and determines how drastic the changes will be.
On average millions of hectares of forests are destroyed each year resulting in severe consequences that will affect not only our lifestyle, but also all the animals with which we share our planet. Many species of animals and plants will become extinct and if we continue with the destruction of our forests, earth will be unable to sustain life.
“The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Scaling to 46 years, human have been here 4 hours, the industrial revolution began 1 minute ago, and in that time, we’ve destroyed more than half the world’s forests.” - Unknown. One major environmental problem in our world is deforestation - what is that, you ask? According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, deforestation is the action or process of clearing of forests. Some consequences of this include a large contribution to global warming and climate change (about 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year), loss of biodiversity especially in tropical rainforests, and the extinction of many known or yet to be discovered species. But, through some Debt-for-Nature Swaps, leaving forests
Environmental issues affect every life on this planet from the smallest parasite to the human race. There are many resources that humans and animal needs to survive; some of the most obvious resources come from the forests. Forests make up a large percentage of the globe. The forests have global implications not just on life but on the quality of it. Trees improve the quality of the air that species breath, determine rainfall and replenish the atmosphere. The wood from the forests are used everyday form many useful resources. Moreover, thinning the forests increases the amount of available light, nutrients and water for the remaining trees. Deforestation (forest thinning) is one of the most critical issues of environmental problems that are occurring today.
Mankind abuses some of nature's biggest and vitally needed natural resources for survival such as as oil, forest, clean water, and soil. We should refocus our goals from not necessarily limiting our usage of natural resources, rather we should focus on finding alternatives to already diminishing resources. Surprising about 90 percent of continental United States’ indigenous forest has been removed since 1600 (cited) using various deforestation methods. That is an alarming 4.6 percent a
This is alarming since recent data indicates these enormous forests are land-dwelling carbon absorbers that could help to slow worldwide climate alteration. The United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates “eighteen million acres of forests have been destroyed worldwide;” and NASA forecasts “that if current deforestation rates are not reduced, rainforests could become entirely eradicated in a century.” The nations with substantial deforestation are Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, Africa (The Democratic Republic of Congo included), and remote areas of Eastern Europe. Indonesia, the country with the greatest deforestation within the last century, has lost approximately forty million acres of indigenous
This article describes the history of deforestation around the world and explaining how deforestation started as part of a civilizing process. Then the article tells that human populations increase causes deforestation because humans need more land for food, water, and for living purposes. Also in the last part of the article it talks about how the future of deforestation is worse than the present, even with our reforestation efforts the environment is being destroyed to fast for us to stop especially in the
life is essential to life on earth as it produces much of the oxygen that is
Reason to Listen: You as the audience should listen and understand why our planet is becoming hotter and hotter, losing specialized species, and in-turn why plants are no longer able to survive for as long as they were able to before.
centuries. Today with an increasing population the amount of wood available has declined seriously in recent decades. People have been harvesting wood to cultivate land, burn, and for the use of raw materials for industry (Urquhart 2014). The estimated amount of deforestation taking place is twenty million hectares per year (Urquhart 2014). Climate change and global warming are just a few of the problems associated with the degradation of our forests.
We all need to do our part to preserve the earth and we can start by saving our rainforests. Let’s all plant a tree instead of cutting one down. If we use alternative fuel/energy instead of fossil fuel, use less plastics, pesticides and toxic chemical wastelands and stop creating freshwater lakes we will slow down the deterioration of the earth (global warming). If we continue to make conditions bad on earth we will soon be extinct like the dinosaurs and other animals.
...ll persons. Only when the population of Earth contributes as a whole to stopping deforestation, will this dire situation be resolved. Deforestation must be stopped; our very survival depends on it.
Deforestation is the amputation of trees from forest areas more swiftly than they can be replanted or regenerate naturally. The fact that trees play an incredibly momentous part in stabilising climate, atmospheric composition and soil structure, removing trees rapidly becomes a major problem. There are numerous reasons behind the felling of trees by mankind. The Amazon basin is a prime example of humans exploiting rainforests. Within this tropical rainforest lie a vast variety of tree species, with many uses, giving humans even more reason to exploit this area.