Destroying The Amazon Essay

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This planet has many things to offer, tree, animals, life. And we take it all for granted. With so millions of people, we are losing land to fit on. So naturally, we take all the land we can find. Like forest and maybe soon, even the ocean. This is not good because even though we are getting more room to stay and live on, we are taking the land from others and in doing so, we are also ruining the natural ecosystem, the natural circle of life. We are destroying homes that animals are already living in. That’s like someone putting a wrecking ball through your home because they want to build their own home there. We shouldn’t be destroying the Earth we should be nourishing it like it’s our baby. Because in some ways it is. The Amazon is a very …show more content…

So even though you don’t live in Brazil it affects the life you live. There are natives who live in the Amazon and I’m sure that they don’t like their land being cut down and McDonalds’ being built in their place. Deforestation is a serious topic, new animals have also been spotted in the Amazon as well, we don’t want to kill them off before we even understand them do we? Land that we don’t even own is being sold off like it’s nothing. Deforestation should not be a business. The Great Amazonian Chainsaw Massacre is proof of that. There is even a 20 ft tall metal tree which is made of confiscated chainsaws from illegal loggers to try and scare them off. People, criminals are tearing down this great, amazing forest for money, fun, stores, just like the evil, disturbing people they are, and will always be. There is no way to stop the cutting down of the forest, there will always be someone who disagrees, but we can put up and enforce laws to keep it from destroying the world, which would be bad because that’s where we all live. I want to know what laws are being put up by the government to protect the Amazon and who is helping protect it

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