Rainforests
The world has been ignoring the rainforests for too long, they must open their eyes as to what is happening to them. There are so many species of life, no one will ever be able to count how many there actually are. The rainforests need to be saved and a couple of people cannot do it alone, it has to be a worldwide commitment. The expert Professor Norman Myers speaks out on this issue. He has been a consultant to many UN agencies, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Resources Institute, and other organizations. He is interested in resource relationships between the developed and developing worlds. The species of the rainforests are so great in number. Everyday several dozen species disappear. Our world needs to make this stop! The species going extinct will never be seen or heard from again, once they are gone. What if there was an animal species in their containing something in its body to cure a deadly disease like AIDS. The species could possibly be extinct before the scientists even discovered it was their. If these species died and the sun still came up the next day does it really make a difference? Yes, it does make a huge difference
. The difference is explained in the oil-palm plantations. At one time, many species lived their, but now, since workers came in and took the oil-palm for cosmetics and other goods, they have disappeared. Only one species remains on the oil-palm plantations. This is the weevil and its attention is confined to the oil-palm alone. The species of the rainforest just continue to drop to lower numbers, each and every day. The greenhouse effect is a big problem in our world today. The trees of the rainforests take much of the carbon dioxide out of the air and give off oxygen so we can breathe without thinking. No one ever really thinks about where most of the oxygen we breathe in comes from. Most of the oxygen comes from our rainforests. "A single acre can soak up four tons of carbon each year for several decades." This will slow down the greenhouse effect for our world, if we stop cutting down the trees. You say, well, we plant trees near our home, and around our neighborhood. If the trees are still getting cut down in rainforests, then it's not going to do much good planting trees because they will counterbalance each other. Also, the rate the trees are being cut down is so great our efforts of planting trees if left in the dust a million miles away. WE need to stop the tree cutting altogether, and plant trees. If we can do that, we can improve the state of the world, and our children
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Approximate Word count = 948
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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