Deforestation Equals Destruction Editorial (Claire)

Did you know that every minute a slice of forest equivalent to 7 football fields is destroyed in the Amazon rainforest? Originally the Earth was home to 6 million square miles of tropical rainforest but today only 2.6 million square miles remain. This is deforestation and thanks to agriculture, urbanization, mining, logging and many more the earth is being destroyed, just like the forests. The problem is that few trees are replanted which means a depleting forest and organism population. If we don't do something soon then the death of the world will be the blood staining our hands. The world is our gift, our earth and we have to take responsibility for it. Deforestation is the destruction of our home.


Forests can give so much to everybody and everything. Firstly, they produce wildlife. Much wildlife is protected and given life to by forest which provide a home to a massive abundance of organisms. Secondly, trees are a huge need to humans and other animals. Forests create a large community of trees and other plants that work together to produce oxygen. Thirdly, forests provide food and water. One fifth of the world's fresh water is found in the Amazon basin. Next, medical value can be provided by these important sources of life; much of which we have not discovered. If we eliminate forests from the equation then much information will be exterminated. Finally, forests regulate temperatures and weather patterns. This provides a good habitat and a home for many.


Deforestation is a terrible and selfish gesture that destroys the homes of many animals. forcing them to move and adapt to other areas during a process in which many die. Bigger animals are hit harder by this disaster, one example being the panda which has been put onto the endangered species list due to urbanization and habitat fragmentation. Apart from threatening the condition of many organisms, deforestation also encourages global warming by reducing the amount of trees that can extract carbon dioxide from our already inflated atmosphere.


The world's resource institute believes that the activity of deforestation is one of the earth's biggest land-use issues. We must put a stop to it at all costs. Luckily, here in Canada there is little deforestation to be named and we must keep it that way. In order to bring back what we have exterminated we must work together to replant new trees and plants in areas where forests once stood but have been reduced to ruins.
We must rebuild as much of the world as we can.
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