Deforestation: Carbon Dioxide and New Land Area

Persuasive Essay.

Destruction of the world’s forest in an inevitable consequence of worldwide improvement in the standard of living. Discuss.

Imagine that life without green tree, imagine people are snatching oxygen and started to do anything they can get the oxygen. When people started to sweat, to breath hardly, to think hard what had they do for their past to the nature. It happen when deforestation occurred! By definition, deforestation means the cutting or removal of trees from woodlands or forests in order to convert the land into commercial or logging reasons or for whatever purpose it may serve them (Hata 2008). People agree with deforestation because of agriculture and increasing of population. Deforestation is risky to environment and human being because it can cause erosion of soil, increases of temperature which also global warming and loss in biodiversity.

The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut the forests to supply more ground for plant crops or grazing livestock. This new land area contributes a much needed place to grow up a food provide to deal with the planet's steadily increasing population of humanity. This results in better and more abundant production of food and materials, virtually eradicating periods of want and lack. Economically, deforestation has contributed much in giving many communities the chances to make changes in their lives (Fiset 2011).

Deforestation is needed for developing a new place when civilization starts to grow and the needed of the land for urbanization and industrialization. When there is rising number of human occur, deforestation are needed to make human live in more comfortable life (Lad 2011). The people demand will continue to enhance especially in living lifestyle and education. If there’s no expansion of land for new places, where should the overpopulation people stay and study?

In deforestation, it can help country increase the economic and also the human being to having more comfortable lifestyle. But the negative consequences of deforestation far prevail over its positive effects. Deforestation still brings more disadvantages to environment and human being.

Deforestation will cause affect to our soil. When the forest have been slash and cleared for planting crops, the soil has been exposed to the sun and it making the soil very dry and indirectly caused the nutrient reservoir is lost, flooding and erosion rates are high, and soils often become unable to support crops in just a few years. If the area is then turned into cattle pasture, the ground may become compressed as well, slowing down or preventing forest recovery (Lindsey 2007). It also will bring to the catastrophe such as landslides. It not only destroys the environment but also caused death in few countries like Malaysia.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased. The continued of cutting off the forest have enhanced the risk of global warming since the trees that take up carbon dioxide to be used in photosynthesis are gone (Fiset 2007). Trees also play a serious role in take in the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. The smaller the forests are, the larger amount of greenhouse gases inflowing the atmosphere and also will raise the speed and severity of global warming (National Geographic 2011). When the temperature increases, it will cause ice melting and the increasing of the water level. Study shown that “sea levels are predictable to increase between 7 and 23 inches by the end of the century, and continued melting at the poles could add between 4 and 8 inches if global warming continued” (National Geographic 2011).

When the trees have been cut down, it push wild animal to leave their own natural habitat. The unique biodiversity of a variety of geographical areas is being lost on a scale that is fairly unparalleled. Deforestation demolishes genetic variations and results in a permanent loss of different rare plant, animal and insect species.(Borade 2011). Although that the tropical rainforests only make up 6 percent of the surface area in the earth, but there is about 80 to 90 percent of the total species of the world continue their living here. But because of the enormous deforestation, it caused almost 50 to 100 species of animals are being lost in every each day. In the end, it caused a very big scale of extinction of the animals and plants (Putatunda 2011).

Deforestation is not a local problem, it is international problem since in every corner of countries, there’s deforestation occurred. Damaging the forests not only effect human living standards, but also effect the planet and every living things in this planet. Forests are one of the Mother’s Earths greatest sources of live. Deforestation should not be applied in every country and should be banded to protect the environment. By reforestation, the species of trees and plant will not be extinct. It also only can be avoided with the cooperation of human being by supporting the event or campaign that protests deforestation. Destruction of world’s forest can be avoided from the worldwide improvement in the standard of living. For getting a better environment, better society and for the better life for the next generation, stop deforestation and make there’s a hope for a green future.

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