Deforestation: A Disastrous Future Ahead
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Deforestation: A Disastrous Future Ahead
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Deforestation releases more carbon into the atmosphere than all the world’s cars, trains, ships, and planes
combined (Bergen)! Are humans capable of coming together in order to reverse this disastrous problem, and will
businesses be willing to cut back their production rates to save our beautiful planet? I guess only time will tell. The
rich nations, including the United States, are saying we can, based on the commitment to put together a 3.5 billion
dollar “quick start” fund for REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), a forest
carbon program. This fund is meant to pay the underdeveloped nations to stop destroying their forests. However,
because of deforestation, CO2 levels are reaching great heights causing global warming, so if businesses don’t act
fast and cut back on this destruction it could mean the end to man-kind.
Deforestation has grown to become a devastating predicament to wildlife and the atmosphere all thanks to
humans. Sadly, deforestation has demonstrated its disastrous aptitude once before to a clan of Nazca people in
Peru about 1,500 years ago. Their demise was the result of a freak extreme weather event mixed with their own
deforestation activities (O’Hanlon). The Nazca lived in Ica Valley (O’Hanlon). “Once a fertile riverine oasis, the valley
is now almost totally barren. It was previously dominated by huarango trees, massive slow-growing relatives of the
mesquite that can live for more than 1,000 years, providing food and wood for fuel and construction, trapping
water from the mists that blow in from the Pacific, and stabilizing the soil. Researchers, like archaeologist Alex
Chepstow-Lusty, found that as the Nazca civilization grew, the level of huarango pollen declined ...