Sam Latreille

Deforestation is the leading environmental issue on Earth. Major effects of deforestation include extinction, over population and global warming. These problems affect us humans directly and damage our planet. We humans should stop cutting trees down because we are destroying our native habitats, native species and our biodiversity. Our planet loses around 10 million hectares of forest every year. We must act now.

One of the causes of deforestation is extinction of plants or species living in the forests. It is a proven fact that 70% of earths plants and animals dwell in forest and deforestation affects them directly. If the current rate of deforestation continues, the world’s rain forest will vanish within the next 100 years. We will be eliminating the majority of plant and animal species on the planet. Species that are being affected by deforestation orang-utans, elephants, tigers and most important us humans. Extinction in our forest leads to a lot of biodiversity loss, causes the rate of change in our biosphere is increasing. Extinction in the forest affect us humans with our health and chances of survival as species, if we stop deforestation we will have a cleaner planet and the benefits from not cutting down our trees are improve of personal health, reduce air pollution, modifies climate change and increase economic stability.

We are the cause over populating our earth, our planets losses 160,000 square kilometres to deforestation which equals to 1% of the original forest habitat each year. This is a disaster because important resources are extracted from our environment like oil, gas, water, coal and wild life. The consequences we get from over populating is increasing air, water, soil and noise pollution and unhygienic conditions. Top 5 issues with over population loss of environment, high coast living rise of unemployment, pandemics n endemics and water shortage. Deforestation is a huge concern but only adds up to a small part of global warming.

Global warming is one of the most threating issues that our Plants faces, humans have caused 1.07C of warming and extreme heat events have occurred more frequent and serve. There is More CO2 is in our atmosphere than at any time in human history. We humans are on the path to exceeding 1.5C of warming. The number of climate change related disasters has tripled over the last 30 years. Global warming causes floods, droughts, wildfires, heat waves, earthquakes and volcano eruptions which kills our environment. Global warming causes people to suffer from poverty and food shortage. On average 26 million are displaced by this disaster. Global warming is a major issue in today’s society our glaciers and ice sheets our shrinking, river and lake ice is breaking up earlier and plants and animal’s geographic ranges are shifting. Global warming is likely to reach 1.5C between 2030 and 2052.

My argument is a worldwide big issues because if we keep going down the path we on we will destroy our planet and our rain forest will vanish in 100 years. We need to stop now we loosing important resources to keep the human race alive, let’s keep our earth better and clean, LETS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!.