Monday, January 25, 2010

Environmental Destruction



Deforestation is a leading cause of global destruction. Eliminating forests not only hurts the ecosystem, but it can also affect humans and climate change. When people remove trees from various forests they take away the habitat of many living organisms. This does not directly affect humans, but it could in the near future because many of the animals that we depend on rely on other organisms that are dying out because their habitat is getting destroyed. One must look at the food chain and realize that if we keep eliminating certain organisms that it will eventually affect human beings. Forests are also important for their nutrients that they provide. There are many resources that we use that come from forests. One important example is medicine. If we were to keep destroying forests, we would lose our valuable resources in which we depend on for making medicine. Another important way forests contribute to the world is that they can directly affect the climate. Trees can determine the amount of rain a certain region gets. This process has many positive effects on the ecosystem and is a key part in determining the climate of a region. There are many more ways in which trees and forests help support the world, which is why we must stop deforestation. Deforestation has been proven to negatively impact the environment and is one of the factors that could eventually lead us to global destruction!

This photo was found at http://www.etff.org/2009/images/deforestation-sep09.jpg

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