Cause And Effects Of Deforestation, And The Environment

Since the beginning of time, people have always cut down trees. Wood has been used in many ways, sometimes as a heating fuel, or as a building material for houses and furniture. Not to mention that wood can also be used to produce paper. No one can ignore the need for trees as a major valuable resource for countries and businesses. And no one can deny that many cultures and communities make a huge deal of paper production and usage. As one might imagine, the importance of forests themselves is something unquestionable. In fact, deforestation is a very big important environmental problem that needs to be discussed deeply.

Causes of Deforestation

Indirect Causes There are a lot of things that lead to deforestation, some of which are indirect causes while some of them are. One of the indirect causes is the human ignorance. Nowadays, many people do not care about the environment and

In fact, that cause some serious problems to the public health. For example, according to Pakenham (2013), the CO2 level has been high in the atmospheric. This example shows how human are responsible for most of the accumulation of this gas by burning trees. Also, deforestation lead to lack of food. Many people today cannot find vegetables and the cost to get some is considerably expansive because there are not enough trees to fulfil consumers’ demands.

Long-term Effects We actually can see the future if we still cut down trees, and it is not going to be a bright one, as the world will suffer from the global warming. We will have many problem because global warming. So that climate around the world could change. Global warming is a result from rising concentrations of gases, such as carbon dioxide. This kind of gas create a global greenhouses that traps all the heat inside the earth. The effects from greenhouses is heat-trapping cases average global temperature to rise.