Forest destruction has
played a major role in our world for the last few decades in hopes that jobs
would be given to people to boost our economy. By destroying forests, we have
taken away the habitats of animals, but also given jobs to men and women, as
well as facilities that could house thousands of jobs for workers. Forest
destruction has, in some cases, possibly been a help, but now, it’s becoming
too much. I Madagascar alone, more than 80 percent of their palms are being
threatened with extinction because of forest-cutting for agriculture and
mining. What many forest destruction companies don’t know is: the destruction
of these forests are what have been giving us a large amount of weather related
catastrophes in the world. According to the New York Times, there have been 4
in Asia, 2.5 in Africa, 2 in Europe, 1.5 in South America, and then we had Hurricane
Katrina, one of the deadliest events in the world so far. It has cost us over
40 billion dollars in just claims alone! These aren’t problems that just come up;
they are caused by chain reactions. After this, we had the Fukushima disaster
in Japan, that eventually lead us to longer expansions of nuclear sectors. This
has caused us $12.75 billion dollars that is continuing to go up. Where are
these plants going to go? In what are now our forests. We have nations fighting
one another on forest rights, animal rights, and just about everything else. In
India, the Supreme Court passed a law to only allow 20 percent of any habitats
to be open to humans because the habitats are dwindling down into nothing. Once
these habitats are going, the only thing we’ll have is increased Weather
Disasters and Catastrophes like Katrina that will only pull our Economy into
further disposition and decline.
This brings me back to the point in Madagascar alone. The
palms that are becoming extinct have been a part of their biodiversity for
years. These palms provide resources to some of Madagascar’s poorest
communities providing house construction, and food. These losses of habitat
have been putting major strain on Madagascar as a whole.
We then have the issue with high temperatures and natural
disasters that are threatening our world as a whole. Katrina was just the
beginning of the catastrophes that will continue to happen if we keep cutting
our forests down to build more power plants or factories for workers. Disasters
have already driven the world’s economy down to an outstanding 510 billion
dollar loss; this has been one of the highest we’ve ever had. Yet we still
continue to wonder why our economy is dwindling down into nothing and there are
poor nations and struggling countries. Our world revolves off of chain
reactions and we have to stop it before it gets any worse.
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