Deforestation : The Biggest Problem on Our Earth What are we going to do ? By : Jenni Necsutu
What do you think when you hear the word trees ? You would probably say , “ Oh , they ' re just trees and they don ’ t do any good to us !” If you said that , then you ’ re more than a 100 % wrong . Long ago , the Africans depended on trees a lot . They took over their rainforests until the British colony came to Africa and destroyed the rainforests . To the Africans , cutting the rainforests was a very terrible threat to them . They loved their rainforests very much . The reason why they depended on the rainforests is that because the trees gave them food , wood supply , drug , and so on . Do you also think trees are important to us ? If you answered no , you ’ re wrong again . Trees help us live and I ’ ll tell you why they help us survive . Deforestation is clearing trees away for reasons which you will know soon . Deforestation is wrong in many different ways , but in some other ways deforestation is kinda ok .
What are the uses that come from trees ?
There are so many helpful materials that come from trees . By helpful I mean good materials that help us live . One of the things that come from trees are drugs . “ Drugs derived from compounds in this plant now offer victims of the most common form of childhood leukemia a 75 % to 80 % chance of recovery and Hodgkin ' s disease sufferers a 58 % chance of recovery ( Tangley )”. This means that in Africa lots of kids there have those diseases and the survival rate wasn ’ t really good , but their bad luck change . As I mentioned earlier , drugs or medicine comes from trees . When the kids took the medication , their survival rate changed which it went higher .
Another material that comes from trees is wood supply . Look all around your house . What are houses made out of ? The answer is trees or wood . There are other objects that are made out of trees . “ From the food on the kitchen table to the living room furniture , clothes in the bedroom , and the medicine and cosmetics in the bathroom cabinet , products derived from the rainforest play an important role in everyday life throughout the world ( Tangley )”. That ’ s what other objects are made out of . There ’ s also furniture , hardwood floor , etc .
Food also comes from trees . You won ’ t believe how many things come from trees . They are : coffee , sugar , bananas , oranges , mangoes , papayas , nutmeg , cinnamon , black pepper , and clovers . So , who said that trees weren ’ t important to us ? If it was you , you should take back what you said about trees . We depend on trees in the very effective way . That ’ s how trees help us survive but there are other ways trees help us survive .
“ The forests provides food , wood , spices , medicine , oils , fiber , and a wealth of other materials used around the globe ( Tangley ). What comes from trees , we use it . A lot of things come from trees that we depend on .
Why do we depend on trees ?
The reason why we depend on trees is because they ' re important to us , they provide us helpful things , and they help us survive . Trees give us coffee , sugar , bananas , oranges , mangoes , papayas , nutmeg , cinnamon , black pepper , clovers , fiber , oils , wood , spices , and medicine . They give us