Review Of Wangari Maathai's Replenishing The Earth

In society we often don’t acknowledge that our environment is at high risk. We ignore this fact and just decide to focus on other topics such as politics, gun control, religion, etc... However, what we don’t realize is that the resources in our environment are not eternal and we are constantly losing resources due to the lack of conservation. In the past 12,000 years, 46% of all the existing trees in the world have been cut down. In 1977, Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement (“Eco activist Wangari Maathai keeps her faith in the power of grassroots”). The Green Belt Movement mainly focuses on empowerment to all gender, tree planting, and local and international advocacy for environmental protection. While we live in a society in

Mahatma Gandhi once stated, “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another”. Excessive deforestation is believed to be one of the leading causes of climate change and habitat loss in the world. Daniel Quinn, an American writer claims that “...man was innocent until he discovered the difference between good and evil. When he was no longer oblivious of that knowledge, he became a fallen creature… We are destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.” Deforestation goes even farther than prove what Quinn stated is correct. We are destroying our planet with diminished forests, mass animal extinction, and climate change; all because of deforestation.

The affect of environmental issues occur everyday and in particular deforestation is becoming a highly ranked subject. From animals to the human race, the alacrity of trees that are cut down affects every individual in a variety of ways. Not only do people need to help the planet but they need to help themselves and further generations to come, such as children and grandchildren because these natural resources that are being taken away from society are as well shaping the future. For comprehensible reasons, forests use to make up the world, until man made creatures started to destroy and destruct the most important supply to human kind which are trees. Trees are crucial to every living entity for the reason of providing oxygen to all.

Deforestation is the destruction of a wide area of forest land into a cleared land that is used for a variety of reasons. The impact on the environment from cutting down, burning and damaging forests is very detrimental and there are severe consequences for the environment and future generations because of deforestation. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization approximately 7.3 million hectares of forests are being destroyed per year in the world (Bradford, 2015). In this essay, I will explore the impact that deforestation on the environment and I will also look at the actions that are being taken to prevent deforestation. There are various reasons why deforestation is occurring despite its negative effects on the environment. Deforestation can cause very serious environmental problems such as climate change, flooding, loss of habitats as well as others.

Clear cutting forests can be proven to be an unstable way of practising forestry as its long term affects to an environment target the climate, soil conservation, biodiversity and hydrological regimes. Depleting forest resources will be given strict and serious punishment as it affects society as a whole and not

Wangari Maathai expresses her gratitude to the world for her Nobel Peace Prize, and also calls her audience to action. Her goal is to convince the world that the environment has much more importance than most people seem to realize. In her speech she begins by expressing her gratitude, and persuading her audience that she is worth listening to. Second she discusses the importance of the environment and explains how the Green Belt Movement has helped and changed the world. She then clarifies the problems still occurring. After establishing the problems, she goes on to make her call to action. Lastly, she ends by establishing pathos.

No more pencils no more books no more teacher 's dirty looks! If we continue to cut the trees down at the rate we are, this saying will hold true in the near future. The most dangerous effects of cutting down the rainforests is the loss of animals and plants which is caused by the loss of their natural habitat. Seventy percent of the earth 's animals and plants live in forests/rainforest, and many can’t survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. The trees of the rainforest that provide shelter and protection for all living organisms also provides the cover that helps regulates the temperature. The removal of the protection of the cover through deforestation would allow a more dangerous variety of temperature from day to night. Forest fire, clearing for agriculture, and logging for timber to build houses are all ways of deforestation. Deforestation will affect

As we deforest the African rainforest not only are we killing potential cures for diseases as well as innocent animals we are also killing human beings. There are three larger and more widely known tribes The Pygmies, The Huli, and The Indigenous (People of the rainforest). Most of the people in the African rainforest spend a plentiful amount of the year in a near village where they trade bush meat and honey for manioc, produce, and other goods. They most often trade with the family they had previously chosen often times the families will trade with each other for generations (Butler, 2012). Traditionally the people of the rainforest are hunters and gatherers, but deforestation has created jobs for forestry workers, farming, and mining (Social Impacts of Logging, 2006).Traditionally the rainforest inhabitants travel by foot or by boat with deforestation roads are being built allowing cars and trucks to go through. (Laurance, 2012). The people who occupy the rainforest live

Along with my love for the environment came a pain in watching it suffer around the world as human development encroached onto once untouched regions. I felt powerless and desperate to somehow use my individual influence, no matter how small, to slow the damage to the planet and lessen the impact a growing population was having as we dive deeper for resources.

In the Mid-20th century, the country cut down most of the indigenous trees in the country. However, on realizing the adverse effects that are caused by lack of forest

Life within this vast luscious leaf green rainforest will never be the same. Most of this wonderland is now a burning unloved plain; hidden deep in the trees were no one can stop the injustice going on. Humans have probably destroyed their chances of curing all ills with their childish behaviour, never ceasing to end and come to a cruel lifesaving stop. Soon this will become a place of fire fuelled dreams. Do you really want

The land ethic is a way of living that shows us how our actions can have a positive and negative impact on our surroundings. It is the idea of putting every single element in nature together as one. Aldo Leopold explains how we have seen the trees as something “entitled to us and from which we can get just an economical benefit” (Leopold 9). The author portrays in this line that we do not care about our tress. Following the ideas of Jack Ewing in “Deforestation, Reforestation, Regeneration”, “How Much is a Tree Worth” and “Close Encounter in the Slow Line”, as well as Aldo Leopold “ Good Oak” and Janes Goodall “Seeds of Hope”, show us the importance of the effects that we have on the trees and the effects that tress has on us. By realizing

It is a fact that people in different parts of the world have already experienced and realized the detrimental effects of their activities where they live. As much as people do not like to live in a dirty city, they are concerned to cut down all the forests and to poison the entire potable water. The governments of different countries together with businesses are ready to implement and fund programs to restore and preserve the environment, but the difficulty lies in the fact that different countries, like people, have different levels of understanding and implementation of these actions. Mahatma Gandhi said: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” It is not difficult to understand, that the main geneses

“As societies wrap their collective minds around the consequences of global environmental change-rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, chronic water shortages, disappearing species-it may well be that a new ethic will emerge, one that says it is not only right and

Deforestation is one of the most significant issues of our time; considerable measures must be taken to prevent further pillaging of our unique forest resource.