RainforestEssay Preview: RainforestReport this essayDestroying Our FutureSummary: Every day an average of two football field sizes of precious rainforest are torn down, killing millions of animals and destroying valuable pharmaceutical plants. As people tear down the rainforests they are affecting the ozone layer, and disrupting the process that lets plants fight the deadly amount of pollution the world produces every day.
Every day an average of two football field sizes of precious rainforest are torn down, killing millions of animals and destroying valuable pharmaceutical plants. A huge amount of these animals and plants have never, and will never be discovered. Experts say, “Close to eighty percent of the terrestrial species of animals and plants are to be found there [in the rainforest],.” As people tear down the rainforests they are affecting the ozone layer, and disrupting the process that lets plants fight the deadly amount of pollution the world produces every day.
Over three thousand plants found can help the fight against cancer. Seventy percent of these plants are found in the rainforest. Periwinkle is a very essential plant that produces the drug Vincristine that is the most powerful cancer-fighting drug that has been discovered as of today. Scientists say, “Vincristine is used as a part of MOPP chemotherapy regimen, and has helped increase the rate of remission in acute childhood leukemia from twenty percent to ninety percent..” The periwinkle plant is only found in rainforest regions. Imagine not having access to this drug anymore because all of the rainforests in the world have been torn down. The world may never find a cure to cancer, one of the most common and deadliest diseases known to man if the rainforests and the plants within them continue to be destroyed.
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Many people are also worried we don’t have enough rain for what we are doing. We will continue to put all of our eggs in the basket by making rainforests rain in the name of God, without considering the health and environmental benefits of our work. We cannot rely upon it all day.
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