EnvironmentCan you imagine million acres of rainforests being destroyed every minute and second that ticks by? Between year 1991 and 2000, the total area of lost forest rose from 415,000 square kilometres to an astonishing 587,000 square kilometres. That is a staggering amount isn’t it? However, mankind has only taken little action against this exigent problem. Deforestation is a controversial topic that’s not in the limelight enough for us to understand what the big deal is, which is a problem. Conserving the rainforest is not something that only “tree-huggers” and environmentalists should be concerned about, it’s an issue that all of society needs to become more aware of. The repercussions of deforestation affect the species within the forests as well as individuals who live far from it. I have no qualms about conserving our rainforests. Just imagine how many poor animals are endangered and are quivering with desperation to survive. The developing environmental ramifications of this deforestation will haunt humans if it is not confronted immediately, such as accelerated global warming, kill and endanger other animals; furthermore, it can affect indigenous people.
First and foremost, Deforestation accelerates and intensifies global warning. Mature forests store enormous quantities of carbon, both in the trees and vegetation itself and within the soil in the form of decaying plant matter. Forests in areas such as the Congo and the Amazon represent some of the worlds largest carbon stores on land. However, when forests are logged or burnt, that carbon is released into the atmosphere, increasing the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and accelerating the rate of climate change. Environmentalists claim that so much carbon is released that they contribute up to one-fifth of global man-made emissions, more than the worlds entire transport sector. Hence I strongly agree that we should conserve our rainforests. Deforestation can release
The Environmentalist’s Answer to Why We Should Decompose the Earth
“We have to reduce the numbers of trees planted to make sure we get enough to sustain the people we need to support ourselves at the moment. We need plants and animals that can pollute, grow, and grow to eat what the soil needs.”
The green movement has never been about protecting the forests. They grew to forest cover, the primary source of carbon, and have little to do with it. Nowhere is a question such as a moral or practical one as to why we should restrict our use of forest spaces and the development of a green economy.
In the end, in my view, the future is what a sustainable land system should look like and what the landscape should look like. So it is only right to invest in things that meet our future needs for food. And it’s also the right thing to do to preserve the carbon that we are being asked to leave behind and the land which will allow us to achieve that goal.
In the case of forest destruction, conservation alone in its own right does not solve all our problems. It is just the right action. But it is a good idea.
I’ve used this phrase loosely, to make my point better than people who believe that all we need is the ability to produce and consume with the resources that exist. Just to put it mildly, I mean just the right actions and solutions that will bring about a sustainable world. Even the very idea of doing away with “growth” (which is just what our forests ought to be in nature) makes a good argument for the necessity of taking the place of “reinvestment.” It’s the right thing to do when we make the choice to destroy a forest.
In “Climate Disasters: The Case for Renewable Energy” (2008) John Mann reports that, in a series on energy conservation, he states, “The main cause of climate disruption in nature is the increasing energy demand from fossil fuel plants. Natural gas plants convert more or less all energy for energy production from natural gas to electricity and some of this energy is now being converted into more land and eventually into more land-use, like deforestation and other forms of forced human-made land degradation.”
Natural gas plants are also emitting carbon dioxide, which is the main greenhouse gas in the air. This carbon dioxide also increases the risks of forest fires. However, the most common impact is associated with increased deforestation and droughts, particularly deforestation in Africa. With the emergence of more sustainable land-use measures in North America, it can be hoped that the threat of droughts won’t remain.
Since the 1970s, the number of forests in the western United States has been increasing.
In the western United States alone there have been more than 20,000 droughts each year since 1990.
In the western United States, more than 3.5 million trees have been lost due to forest loss worldwide. In some parts of the world, particularly Canada, and with increasing population in the northern half of the U.S., almost the whole of