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... With the majority of the population living in towns and cities, taking for granted the few scarce trees remaining after urban development or planted afterward by the city to shade the streets and appease potential citizens, the rapid extinction of one of our world’s oldest life-forms is going almost unnoticed. ... These are important questions that must be answered before all of our trees have been eliminated, because if we wait to find out until all of our forests are gone, it might prove to be a fatal experiment for life on Earth. ... ” Altogether, it is unknown how long the plundering of the earth’s forests will continue. ... ” This massive amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has to be part of the reason, among numerous others, for the hole in the earth’s ozone layer. ...
If the rain forests of the world, particularly in the tropics, are continually cut down the earth could be on the verge of another ice age. The rain forests help in keeping the temperate climate of earth stable. ... People need to learn more about the rain forests and what their importance is to earth. Until then we will keep destroying the trees, the ecosystems, and earth’s climate until this world is uninhabitable.
Deforestation in prevailing countries leads to endangerment and possible extinction of hundreds of plants and animals around the world each and everyday. ... There is no exact rate of extinction at the time, but estimates indicate that up to 137 species vanish worldwide each day. (Rates of Rainforest Loss)
The rainforests are the richest, oldest, most productive, and most complex ecosystem on earth. ... ” (Species Extinction)
Tropical rainforests contain more than 50 percent of all animal species in the world. ... (Species Extinction) But with more and more species disappearing from the Earth, more and more sources of possible medicines slip away from us. ... Other organisms are losing species they depend upon, and thus face extinction themselves.
Approximate Word count = 2995
Approximate Pages = 12
(250 words per page double spaced)
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