Thursday, April 22, 2010
Rain Forest
I always knew that there was destruction of the rainforests going on, but I never knew that it was this severe! After I looked at the Rain forest website it made me really sad. Not only do animals live in the forests but people live their too! We are destroying the homes of so many important organisms that are crucial for our planet. Everything is so interdependent in the rainforests that upsetting one part of it can sometimes even cause destruction of the whole. If we lose our tropical rainforests it will have a devastating impact on the world because the rainforests provide so much for every living thing on this planet. Also, the rainforest is important because it is continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. "More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest." After reading about the rainforest destruction it made me want to become more involved with preserving what is left of them.
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It is definitely alarming to see the destruction of the rain forests rather than just reading about it. Cleaner air, cleaner water and habitat for so many species and it's being stripped out. There's lots of talk about this problem but, like so many issues, I'm wondering whether there is any progress towards slowing the pace?
ReplyDeleteYou brought up a good point about the amount of oxygen that the rainforests create. Most of the time when you hear about rainforest destruction it is about the descruction of plants and animals. If we eliminate rainforests and what? build a city? we lose twenty percent of the world oxygen like you pointed out. I think this is a factor that is not brought up often enough when talking about the destructions of our world's rainforests.
ReplyDeleteI don't quite understand the point of cutting down the rain forests. It's not like we are actually running out of room in the world. Just drive in any direction for a few hours and you'll end up seeing huge areas of absolutely nothing. Until that space is all filled up and crowded, leave the forests alone. Watching stuff like National Geographic and the Discovery channel becomes annoying when all their "nature" shows have traces of civilization in the middle of them.
ReplyDeleteI agree! Once you look at the facts it really gets you to think about whats going on! The rainforest I believe is very important on the fact of oxygen and contributing to the rainforest in ways of small donations so to say, could make a difference!
ReplyDeleteThe destruction of the rain forests are destroying a lot of our natural resources. I agree with you that the forest is a very important part of many of us, animals included. The rain is very important to many survival. We definitely need the oxygen that comes from it.
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