degradation of environment
Essay on The Importance of Degradation to the Environment
"Jimmy, let's see if you know the creatures of the rainforest. What sound does this one make?"
"That's right, a chainsaw goes RRRRRRRRR."
A simple cartoon in a magazine, that's all people see it as. There is constantly talk about the environment being destroyed and we've become immune to the topic. It just washes over us, without the idea actually sinking in. Everything that is being done on this planet somehow affects someone, something. The state of our planet is becoming severely degraded without people realizing the brutal truth. "Oh, it's down south, we don't live there, it doesn't affect us." It's with this mentality that the state of the planet is going to continue to decline. Throughout the third world the land is being severely degraded due to the deforestation of rainforests, the side effects that go along with the destruction of forests, and the role multinational corporation's play.
Deforestation has been a hot topic throughout the first world now for some years and it's commonly stated that this is one of the worst environmental problems on the planet, yet we aren't even there experiencing the problem, or doing a lot to help rectify it. Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 1.5 acres per second throughout Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. Rainforests cover less than 6 percent of the Earth, yet 70 percent of the Earth's species are found within them. For example: Panama has as many plant species as all of Europe combined, and a single island in the Philippines contains more woody plants than all of the US. There are many factors that play in the game of deforestation, the main ones being the growing population and farmland, logging, and cash crops.
As the world's population increases, so does the need for food, especially in third world countries. During the 1960's the Brazilian government set up a program to relocate poor people outside of large cities. The
"Jimmy, let's see if you know the creatures of the rainforest. What sound does this one make?"
"That's right, a chainsaw goes RRRRRRRRR."
A simple cartoon in a magazine, that's all people see it as. There is constantly talk about the environment being destroyed and we've become immune to the topic. It just washes over us, without the idea actually sinking in. Everything that is being done on this planet somehow affects someone, something. The state of our planet is becoming severely degraded without people realizing the brutal truth. "Oh, it's down south, we don't live there, it doesn't affect us." It's with this mentality that the state of the planet is going to continue to decline. Throughout the third world the land is being severely degraded due to the deforestation of rainforests, the side effects that go along with the destruction of forests, and the role multinational corporation's play.
Deforestation has been a hot topic throughout the first world now for some years and it's commonly stated that this is one of the worst environmental problems on the planet, yet we aren't even there experiencing the problem, or doing a lot to help rectify it. Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 1.5 acres per second throughout Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. Rainforests cover less than 6 percent of the Earth, yet 70 percent of the Earth's species are found within them. For example: Panama has as many plant species as all of Europe combined, and a single island in the Philippines contains more woody plants than all of the US. There are many factors that play in the game of deforestation, the main ones being the growing population and farmland, logging, and cash crops.
As the world's population increases, so does the need for food, especially in third world countries. During the 1960's the Brazilian government set up a program to relocate poor people outside of large cities. The