Saving the Rainforest

Essay # 46250

Biology > Ecology
Environmental Studies > Environmental Problems

This paper looks at the many important aspects of the rainforest and why it should be saved.

724 words () | 5 sources | MLA | 2003 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper spells out the extreme importance of making every effort to save the world's rainforests. Many people do not realize the importance of plants and trees to the human and animal populations. Oxygen, our most important resource, comes from the rainforests. Also, the rainforests have provided many cures for diseases and are home to many exotic and beautiful animals. The paper argues that the depletion of the rainforests will eventually result in the demise of the world.

From the Paper:

"Global warming is causing a greenhouse effect on the earth. Since the 1930s the average temperature has risen at least ten degrees and even more in some places (Hartmann 53). Cutting down trees in the rainforest is making carbon dioxide in the atmosphere more abundant, because trees take in carbon dioxide. In The Last Hours of Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation, Thom Hartmann address the problems of the greenhouse effect. "It is exactly what it says; the world is becoming a greenhouse. We are holding in carbon dioxide because there are fewer trees to absorb what humans produce" (9). "The way that humans are jumping on the opportunity the cut down tress it is like humans are trying to commit suicide by asphyxiation" (Bjorn 82). Oxygen is our most important resource and humans are not thinking of the consequences of their actions."