The forests on fire| Deforestation at its maximum| How do we revive our Rainforests?
☆ THE FORESTS ON FIRE!
The Amazon rainforest stretches throughout an area of 670 million hectares. It has been the world's largest carbon dioxide sink. This wonderful rainforest is also the abode of innumerable species of animals which are the largest collection of living plants and animal species in the world.
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➜The region is home to about 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, and some 2,000 birds and mammals.
Even after knowing all this, why do we still harm it? What is wrong with us? More precisely, "What was wrong with us while we were continuously deforesting the jungle for our own selfish purposes, and which then led to be one of the main causes of a fierce wildfires around the world?"
Hear this out:
The total fires that lasted from January to October consumed a total of 906 hectares of the land of the Amazon forest. Do you know how much that is? It is too freaking much!
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All the causes of the melting of so many glaciers and fires in the different jungles all around the world point to one definite cause---
Deforestation.
BUT HOW IS THIS THE MAIN CAUSE? LET US FIND OUT.
✓The trees take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen.
✓When we cut a tree down we are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide on the atmosphere, which would have otherwise been absorbed by the tree.
✓Then due to setting up of new industries and excessive burning of fossil fuels in the form of petroleum, diesel,coal etc., the carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen dioxide content in the atmosphere increase. The fossil fuels while burning also produce large amounts of heat.
✓ Now these gases trap more than needed heat inside the Earth, thereby causing Global Warming.
✓Because of this global warming the overall temperature of the earth increases like anything.
✓Thus if there are less number of trees present in our environment, the carbon dioxide being absorbed by them will also decrease.
✓Hence, this is causing the drying up of trees and land and melting of glaciers.
✓But this melting of glaciers is not in any way useful to us because, the melted water goes into the contaminated rivers and finally into the sea. And we all know that we cannot consume the sea water.
But the main cause for such a large scale deforestation in the, "Lungs of the world" is because of the increased industrial and agricultural activity here. The trees are being cut down in big numbers because of the demands by the paper and other such industries.
•To reduce the amount of trees being cut down we on our part can reduce the use of paper, and instead go for recycled paper. Let us keep in mind that a one sided paper can be used once again before it is thrown away.
All the causes of the melting of so many glaciers and fires in the different jungles all around the world point to one definite cause---
Deforestation.
BUT HOW IS THIS THE MAIN CAUSE? LET US FIND OUT.
✓The trees take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen.
✓When we cut a tree down we are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide on the atmosphere, which would have otherwise been absorbed by the tree.
✓Then due to setting up of new industries and excessive burning of fossil fuels in the form of petroleum, diesel,coal etc., the carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen dioxide content in the atmosphere increase. The fossil fuels while burning also produce large amounts of heat.
✓ Now these gases trap more than needed heat inside the Earth, thereby causing Global Warming.
✓Because of this global warming the overall temperature of the earth increases like anything.
✓Thus if there are less number of trees present in our environment, the carbon dioxide being absorbed by them will also decrease.
✓Hence, this is causing the drying up of trees and land and melting of glaciers.
✓But this melting of glaciers is not in any way useful to us because, the melted water goes into the contaminated rivers and finally into the sea. And we all know that we cannot consume the sea water.
But the main cause for such a large scale deforestation in the, "Lungs of the world" is because of the increased industrial and agricultural activity here. The trees are being cut down in big numbers because of the demands by the paper and other such industries.
•To reduce the amount of trees being cut down we on our part can reduce the use of paper, and instead go for recycled paper. Let us keep in mind that a one sided paper can be used once again before it is thrown away.
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| Picture showing parts of South America struck by the Amazon fire. |
I feel pity towards those little lives who will have to get choked once more because of us.
I mean, The Amazon jungle is called the "Lungs of the World" for a reason! We can't just go on messing around with the ecosystem, disrupt it, and then don't even take the blame on us and try to correct it.
Remember:
➢Without the Amazon's carbon dioxide sink, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere would increase and contribute towards higher global temperatures.
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➜ It is feared that the Amazon could reach a "tipping point" where it would irreversibly die out and the land would become more savanna than forest.
We cannot let this happen at any cost! We can't be so devilish that we ignite a massive fire in the homes of the innocent, without their knowledge and then pretend as if we weren't the mastermind behind it all.
There are things we can do on our part:-
✓ Sign the petitions that I have listed at the end of this blog.
✓Adopt the alternative sources of energy to decrease the emission of harmful gases by fossil fuels.
✓ Go for reduce, reuse and recycle.
✓Plant trees and more trees and go on planting them
⧫ I urge you all to spread this awareness and information, about our environment and what we can do to sustain it, to
people who don't have access to such information like you and me, to people who are unable to read
and do your part in sustaining this beautiful planet. Share this to as many as you can. Animals are not ours to kill. And the Earth is solely not ours to choke. We all are responsible for our own actions. We must remember this! ⧫
people who don't have access to such information like you and me, to people who are unable to read
and do your part in sustaining this beautiful planet. Share this to as many as you can. Animals are not ours to kill. And the Earth is solely not ours to choke. We all are responsible for our own actions. We must remember this! ⧫
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Information sources:- wikipedia)
Information sources:- wikipedia)
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