Historical
Forests use to cover the earth before corporate interest. The history of deforestation started since the late 1800 when people started to live in woodlike lands. In order to create homes, fire, resources, weapons. before deforestation happened there were thousands of forest covering the earth. Now there is roughly about 30 % left of rainforest left. The problems with deforestation is that many use the “Slash and Burn” method in order to create space. What does that mean? It means that they cut down the trees and then burn down the land in order to create space. Space became an important part of collecting resources. Being in conditions where farming was in demand of production as population started increasing land had to be created. Usually in spaces where trees were in abundance adn usually created in poor communities. All of this created a huge problem as time passed by from having over 75% of rainforest in the world to 30% in about a century affecting us in great danger.
For as long as we lived in this beautiful world the human specie is and always will be the most dangerous specie in mother earth. As humans our greatest weakness is the inability to stop and reconsider the impact we have made, the thirst for more. Our principal is based on the idea that we as humans have to do everything to survive, nothing else matters. But if our principle is based on survival how is it that we are killing the one thing we cant live without? Mother nature has taken a catastrophic impact on its life source. Deforestation has been the start of our self-destruction. Many people have don’t understand the meaning of deforestation. To put it simply it is the massive destruction of wild forests by cutting down trees for human need. The desire for wood increased as humans found how useful it was. Nowadays massive corporations take the lead in deforestation. According to paperimpact.org “3.5 million cubic feet of wood is cut a year[1]”. It’s not something new, the idea of cutting down trees, killing everything on our path and not thinking twice is in our genes. But only recently people started to worry. Worrying about the all the damage we as humans have cause to nature. The problem of destroying habitats, killing animals, and contributing to pollution is only ben seen by few. As the article written by globalchange.edu it states“ it is impossible to overstate the importance of humankind's clearing of the forests. The transformation of forested lands by human actions represents one of the great forces in global environmental change”[2]. This means that or acts as humans and our needs have taken a critical impact on something as powerful as weather. Weather that can extinguish us so easily, that without it the human specie wouldn’t have been so successful.
As climate changed the concern for answers increased. Scientist were pressured to find answers. They noticed that deforestation played a key part. As time passed the demand for wood increased exponentially. In fact “About one half of the forests that covered the Earth are gone”[3] according to globalchange.edu This made them notice that deforestation was a major problem. As the years pass the number of tress being cut increases only to lead into a bigger problem. But of coarse the trees can grow back but at the rate that deforestation is happening the growth of trees can not keep up. According to ARM.gov “ It has been estimated that the original area covered by forests was about 6 billion hectares”[4]. This means that almost half of the forests are gone. Only to feed our selfish ways. The problem of deforestation has been in our hands for too long. It will not go away but instead get worse. It is time to change.
As climate changed the concern for answers increased. Scientist were pressured to find answers. They noticed that deforestation played a key part. As time passed the demand for wood increased exponentially. In fact “About one half of the forests that covered the Earth are gone”[3] according to globalchange.edu This made them notice that deforestation was a major problem. As the years pass the number of tress being cut increases only to lead into a bigger problem. But of coarse the trees can grow back but at the rate that deforestation is happening the growth of trees can not keep up. According to ARM.gov “ It has been estimated that the original area covered by forests was about 6 billion hectares”[4]. This means that almost half of the forests are gone. Only to feed our selfish ways. The problem of deforestation has been in our hands for too long. It will not go away but instead get worse. It is time to change.
· [1] Paper Impact About Us." Paper Impact About Us. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2015.
· [1] "GlobalChange.gov." GlobalChange.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2015.
· 3"GlobalChange.gov." GlobalChange.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2015.
[1] "ARM Climate Research Facility." ARM Climate Research Facility. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2015
· [1] "GlobalChange.gov." GlobalChange.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2015.
· 3"GlobalChange.gov." GlobalChange.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2015.
[1] "ARM Climate Research Facility." ARM Climate Research Facility. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 May 2015