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Why Should We Save the Amazon Rain Forest?

The Amazon rain forest is one of the richest ecosystems in the world, but at the moment, it is facing a huge threat.

It is a known fact that our world is heating up due to global warming. Now what relevance does this have to the Amazon? Well quite a lot actually. As you may know, plants respire in the opposite way that we do. We breath in oxygen and breath out C02. Plants breath in this C02 and breath out oxygen. The Amazon help with this a lot. However, with less and less trees every second, there aren’t going to be enough trees to take in our C02. This will mean more C02 into the greenhouse layer and this warming the planet more

As I just explained, trees breathe in C02 and breathe out oxygen. So where does the C02 go? Well, the tree keeps it. Trees are basically large stores of carbon, Imagine what happens when a logger burns down a mature, 150 year old tree in the forest. It releases 150 years worth of carbon into the atmosphere. This is very bad for the environment.

So how can we make a difference? Well, an easy thing to do is buy less things that have a demand for rainforest materials. Things like mahogany doors. If people don’t buy them then there wont be a demand and people will stop logging mahogany. Something that may be considered harder is to vote for a government party that priorities the environment and rain forests. One last thing is to call off the massively growing debt for Brazil. This way, they wont have to exploit the rain forests.

In conclusion, I think the Amazon rainforest should be saved as it is an important part of our lives and without it, we would be plunging into global warming into an even more alarming rate. The way to save the rainforest is to stop people wanting to destroy it and the way to do this is give people what they want from the forests without destroying them. With many people, this is money. Calling off the debt, in my opinion, is the best way to save the forests. Are we going to be remembered for saving humanity, or dooming it? We can still choose!

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    On January 21, 2008 at 1:57 pm


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    On May 31, 2009 at 8:33 pm


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    On October 16, 2009 at 1:14 pm


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    On October 29, 2009 at 9:22 am


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    On January 13, 2010 at 6:02 am


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    On February 18, 2010 at 12:03 pm


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    On February 22, 2010 at 1:07 pm


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  85. jade

    On March 4, 2010 at 2:03 pm


    i need help with my geography assesment the question is should we continue to use the tropical rainforest or should we save it?

  86. ellie

    On March 4, 2010 at 2:04 pm


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  87. Max

    On March 25, 2010 at 7:03 pm


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    On May 6, 2010 at 3:59 pm


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    On November 18, 2010 at 2:50 pm


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    On January 18, 2011 at 7:33 am


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