Deforestation Is Affecting The Environment In Walden By Henry David Thoreau

Deforestation has become an issue that is affecting our environment. Henry David Thoreau explains in his book “Walden” how to environment was conserved during his years of living in the forest. Thoreau brings up a point that we need to live within our means instead of building lavish homes, which impacts our environment and leads to deforestation. Over population is impacting our world like never before. Our world is growing and is causing a list of problems that include deforestation, shortage of resources and the lost of many nature species. People have the necessity to have a home, but they ask for lavish homes, which affect our environment for the sake of cutting trees. Henry David Thoreau living in a small cabin in the woods, and gave us the example that building simple houses helps avoid deforestation. By creating lavish homes people are increasing deforestation by making more land available for housing, when construction companies start to construct they cut all the trees that are invading the place where the house is going to stand. By creating homes near green land, settlers begin producing their own food and starts by cleaning the land to be able to start with agriculture.
Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock. Often many small farmers will each clear a few acres to feed their families by cutting down trees and burning them (National Geographic 2). Thoreau had his own place to plant also, but Thoreau chose a place free from trees and cared for nature. He made a good point on caring for nature and protecting the land, he advanced to us what was going to happen if we did not care for the environment and his predictions were correct all that he said is now happening with our environment and