The Amazon rainforest actually runs through nine nations in South America: 60% in Brazil, Peru with 13%, and Colombia with 10%. The rest covers smaller amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. This is an important fact for context.
The Amazon rainforest does not just hold the oxygen that we breathe in; it also contains medicinal elements that have been cultivated through hundreds of years of plants battling against insects, climates, and trees that gave it the very strength to survive. These are super plants.
The Amazon rainforest must be preserved, and deforestation must stop!
People don’t take what they need; they take what they want, and soon there will be nothing left to take because it will all be gone.
Amazon Rainforest and the Deforestation Crisis
It becomes obvious why the Amazon rainforest and other forests are fast becoming nonexistent when one realizes some of the reasons they are being destroyed. For instance, what grows in the forest, particularly in the Amazon rainforest, that keeps its people surviving and living long lives? The world being what it is, focused on money-making, is the main reason behind its demise, as with everything that can be.
This is so heartbreaking. I don’t understand why people are destroying forests and turning around and “replanting trees,” not knowing what lies within!? Replanting another tree isn’t the same as the one before, nor does it have the same environment as it had before! I’ve seen the new machines where they have been built to ‘simulate’ hundreds of trees, which gives them an excuse to trim down more actual trees!
If you think the economy is more important than the environment, try counting your money without breathing.
The worst of all of this is that the most populated regions in Brazil (Southern East, where stand the most important capitals of the country, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) were supposed to be deserts because of natural reasons, but they’re not deserts only because of the Amazon rainforest and its important umidity.
Another problem with the Amazon rainforest is the investments of other countries. The Amazon rainforest has a lot of precious stones, water, and a great biodiversity.
In the 1960s, documents were published that showed the impact of trees on global warming and their implications for national security. They found trees changed the temperature of the air above them by decreasing the temperature by 2–3 degrees through evapotranspiration. Tree-covered land and barren land had a 10-degree difference in temperature. One could change the entire country’s climate by enlarging its forests.
Apart from the obvious effects, the nuclear mushroom clouds would disrupt high-altitude wind currents and disturb weather patterns globally. And if nuclear war didn’t occur, then the new high temperature, high water levels, and lack of tree coverage would cause major damage to the top soil and have a high potential for nuclear power facility meltdowns across the globe, with food and drinking water becoming scarce. I hope this possibility doesn’t happen.
I think the most important thing is to find a balance between economic development and environmental protection. I don’t know if there are other ways to improve local life quality without destroying the Amazon rainforest. I really hope the government can find a good way to resolve that problem.
I think the best solution to protect the Amazon rainforest is to make it where Brazil’s economy is diverse, so rather than just agriculture, they have multiple industries. Many first-world countries have various industries to help the economy. I think that preserving the Amazon rainforest and using it at a sustainable level is the best thing to do.
The problem is that other first-world countries cannot dictate what happens in Brazil because they have been guilty of exploitation of lands all around the world. If other countries want to keep the Amazon rainforest alive, they need to somehow put their money where their mouth is and help find solutions for farmers to make money more sustainably.
I will never forget the day (2019) when Amazon rainforest was burning so hard that even in my city, 3000 km away, I could see the dark clouds and dust in the sky like the forest was claiming to be helping. I think Amazon rainforest should be protected by other countries for sure—before it’s too late. I don’t care about economic growth because I am just worried about the environment before anything else.
It’s terrible that deforestation is continuing to happen on such a huge scale. It is linked to several problems throughout the world: global warming, flooding, soil erosion, animal extinction, and so on. There is no excuse whatsoever to deny the environmental impact of deforestation. Experts have been saying for years why it is so bad.
Is our demand for wooden products really so high? I certainly don’t change my wooden furniture too frequently. Most of the wooden furniture in my home is over 30 years old. It’s still in good condition, and I have no plans to replace it anytime soon.
Out of every four breaths we take, one is from the Amazon rainforest. It’s not about the people of Brazil; it’s about us. I say all the countries should pay a certain percentage of our GDP to Brazil for the protection and afforestation of the Amazon rainforest. I hope it might help in the future.
Well, if you know the new discoveries in the Amazon rainforest, you would know it was never a forest but a series of cities. They are below the wild plants that grew over everything. I think we should get into the Amazon forest to see what city ruins remain. Any resource too big to fail should be overseen and managed by all governments that want to be involved. Of course, the country the resource resides in would hate that, and rightfully so.
But if the entire planet depends on it for our survival, that’s the only way to protect it, and not with political red tape that takes years to stop destroying it either.
Now I strongly feel that anyone who thinks that Brazil’s Amazon rainforest should not be saved is disrespectful towards nature. They should realize that everyone on this planet of ours is responsible for what is happening to it, and we all should do our part in protecting it along with not using too many resources that this planet of ours has on it.