Imagine being a poor helpless little squirrel. Not only are you not at the top of the food chain, but you've struggled for food you're whole life, but today could possibly be the best day of you're life. You just found a huge stash of food. You've been travelling for days, you haven't seen the tree you live in for days. You get the stash of food thinking very highly of yourself. Three days later you're back at you're tree, or at least what was you're tree. It's gone. All that's left of it is the human machinery that took it down. What do you do now?
What has happened in this situation is called clear-cutting, or deforestation. Humans do this for many reasons. They need new homes, wood for things as construction supplies, to build parks or recreation centers. There are many reasons why people clear-cut, It's just there might not be an end to the deforestation until all the forests are gone.
Deforestation also kills lots of animal and plant life. Next time you cut down a tree or a plant think about how it effects the world around it. Even if you don't see it in front of you all the cutting of trees and plants has a snowball effect. One of the animals that eats that plant dies, then the one that eats the plant-eater dies, and so on.
Did you know that deforestation started in the mid 1800's! The causes then were things like no firewood, or no cooking wood. Today the effects are more like CO2 levels are rising and all of the rainforests will be gone in 100 years if we keep going at this rate. Although we could stop most of this if we planted trees, or if we cut down the trees at a controlled rate.
I think that humans have to start taking action for what they have created because I would like to live for another 70 or 80 years.
Life Lesson: Clear-cutting can kill more then just trees and plants
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What has happened in this situation is called clear-cutting, or deforestation. Humans do this for many reasons. They need new homes, wood for things as construction supplies, to build parks or recreation centers. There are many reasons why people clear-cut, It's just there might not be an end to the deforestation until all the forests are gone.
Deforestation also kills lots of animal and plant life. Next time you cut down a tree or a plant think about how it effects the world around it. Even if you don't see it in front of you all the cutting of trees and plants has a snowball effect. One of the animals that eats that plant dies, then the one that eats the plant-eater dies, and so on.Did you know that deforestation started in the mid 1800's! The causes then were things like no firewood, or no cooking wood. Today the effects are more like CO2 levels are rising and all of the rainforests will be gone in 100 years if we keep going at this rate. Although we could stop most of this if we planted trees, or if we cut down the trees at a controlled rate.
I think that humans have to start taking action for what they have created because I would like to live for another 70 or 80 years.
Life Lesson: Clear-cutting can kill more then just trees and plants
I commented on Michael's blog
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