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Deforestation
People should abandon cash to save trees.
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Trees are a very useful organic material whose existence dates back approximately three hundred and seventy million years ago. Their long-lived existence enables them have evolutionary adaptations that are unique depending on where they grow. However, environmental conditions play a greater role for the varied observable structural differences. Thus, the tropical climate regions all over the world with chilly cold condition are essential. Though the number of trees totals twenty-five percent of all living plant species in history, human beings occupied the earth and started using fire deliberately (n. pp). For this reason, this essay will address tree saving techniques that will stop individuals from exploiting them.
According to Williams, exploitation of trees has caused irreversible damage with consequent dire outcomes. This documentation was recent compared with the ancient times. In order to reduce human exploitation of these resources, people should develop alternatives of generating income. Peque explains that instead should be the opportunities for value-adding rather than consummation (32). Both crude and raw use of timber such as making of furniture, firewood and burning of charcoal should be stopped both at the primary supplier to the tertiary level of recipients. Other than using trees as the source of raw materials, other plant yielding stock can be used alternatively. Since the rural location and nature characterize the market for timber and other products, the low-cost products should be substituted for higher products (peque 32). Established various income generating activities as alternative ways, trees will be reserved.
Another issue that tends to explain the destruction of trees is poverty and exploitation. According to the (World Rainforest Movement) the industrialization programs in third world countries aimed at poverty eradication is the main cause of poverty. Wealthy countries have been consuming so much of their resources that they are no longer sustaining their growing populations and increasingly, they are turning to the resources of the financially poorer countries. “Twenty percent of The world’s population is using 80 % of the world’s resources” (Orams & McQuire). On the converse, individuals from these third world countries expect maximum help, yet they are manipulated. The claim that overpopulation is the cause of deforestation is used by many governments and aid agencies as an excuse for inaction. In tropical countries, pressure from human settlement comes about more from inequitable land distribution that from population pressure. In general, most of the land is owned by small but powerful elite that displaces poor farmers into rainforest areas. So long as these elites maintain their grip on power, lasting land reform will be difficult to achieve. Thus according to Lomman, responsibility for most of the exploitation of the earth is owed to the growing population of rich industrialized countries documented with a clear link between over-consumption in rich countries and deforestation in the tropics. With this information, foreign help inform of a donor organization needs to be highly scrutinized yet poverty is one important issue that has to be put into consideration.
Apart from creating poverty strategies in the developing countries, people should be active and plant trees by supporting the eco-friendly organizations spearheading the care of the environment at the cost of fighting back for the evergreen trees. These organizations functioning and working within a stipulated set of laws will help stop the cruel falling of trees for money. Montgomery Forest preservation strategy (2000) provided such regulations that were enacted by the state for the universal protection of trees. With these laws in place then individuals are under the jurisdiction of the law, with consequent knowledge on its breakage.
Finally, with overpopulation there is less food. People clear land to create more agricultural land for the production of food due to the overgrowing demand. Trees are cut down in plenty to create more farming land. Alternatively, large pieces of land created are used for pastoral farming by the communities rearing large herds of cattle. The land is further predisposed to soil erosion, creating environmental degradation. An immediate intervention strategy would involve eliminating hunger by effective strategy and community education over the same, continuous education about the effects of global warming effect and the rearing of a manageable herd of cattle. The only solutions to deforestation would include; banning the cutting of trees; a practice that is easily feasible, curbing the felling of forest trees.
This essay has focused on the four major factors leading to deforestation for cash. Each has been considered from the viewpoint of the causal agent triggering deforestation act. Establishing these with prompt and effective rules enacted by the forestation organization, people will not involve themselves with deforestation. Additionally, finding alternative environment friendly energy sources with community education will help reduce cutting down of trees.
References
Dennis, P.P. “Value-Adding in Forestry at the Farm and Community Level.” Animals of Tropical Research (2003): 25 (2):29-36.
Hajela, Deepti. “Scientists to Capture DNA of trees Worldwide for Database.” The Associated Press Writer 5 February 2008: 8170.
Williams, Michael. “The History of Deforestation.” History Today (2001): 51.
