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