Eng 101 – ASSIGNMENT №3
December 10, 2012
Abstract. Deforestation has been a global problem for the last century. It is considered to be global as every country is facing it nowadays. Deforestation is caused by chopping trees down, in order to produce paper, wooden goods, to expand territory for building houses and roads. The aim of my project is to give an introduction to the problem of deforestation. In my essay I am going to explain why it is global issue, to talk about some ideas how we can help to prevent it, giving an examples of different countries and tell how they are dealing with it. Even if this problem seems to us impossible to solve, deforestation must be solved in any ways. The main conclusion is that cutting thousand hectares of forests is really a global problem and every person has to know about it in order to help to stop it.
Introduction. All the time the world was facing and still is, the problem of deforestation. It is common knowledge that it is a global ecological issue, which can lead to climate change such as global warming and air pollution, and every country is facing it nowadays. Deforestation encompass cutting trees down in order to produce paper, wooden goods, to expand the square for roads, buildings, as the population of the Earth is growing. However, deforestation is caused not only by cutting trees but also by such accidents as fire. So far as we know, we need trees for building houses or making furniture. Forests are very important in our lives in a role of good sources and paper and in a role of lungs for our planet and home for animals but we have more inferior consequences from deforestation rather than advantages from it. Every human being has to take care and to think about how to save and protect our planet and think of possible ways of doing it. I consider that deforestation must be stopped. This essay will define this global problem; explain all the issues of it at the present time and how it can be
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