Imagine a cure for cancer was lost by the time you finished reading this. It’s really not that crazy to think about, if you knew the effects of tropical deforestation. People have found so many cures for so many different diseases and illnesses in all parts of the Rainforest. And lots of people believe that there is a cure for even cancer out there. But, we will never know, at the rate we are destroying this vital ecosystem. Tropical Rainforest are types of forest that have extremely tall trees, lots of rain, and warm climates. Some rainforest gets more than one inch of rain every day year. These forests hold almost up to all of our planet’s trees. Rainforests are found in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Australia. But the largest
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And according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, more than two-thirds of all medicines found to have cancer-fighting properties come from rainforest plants. Examples abound. Ingredients obtained and synthesized from a now-extinct periwinkle plant found only in Madagascar (until deforestation wiped it out) had increased the chances of survival for children with leukemia from 20 percent to 80 percent.” (Tropical Rainforests: Nature's Medicine Cabinet). Without some of these medicines, many people would not be able to live the way they do right now, when more people realize what an effect it can have on ones life, will be the day a decrease in deforestation will start to show. And if it doesn’t happen soon there will be no rainforest to save and people will just have to try and adapt to a life without the everyday items and important things they take for granted without even thinking of it. Many foods would also go extinct if we lose the rainforest, fruits like “Banana, Mango, Pineapple, Avocado, Lime, Oranges, Guava, and Passion Fruit.” (“What Rainforest”). The diets of people across the globe would have to change because of the …show more content…
People of Africa in the sub-Saharan region have the highest prevalence rate of hunger in the world, “one person is four is unnourished” (Hunger Statistics). And that’s only in one part of the whole planet, “Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth.” (Hunger Statistics). If we stopped clearing of the rainforest and tried to restore it, even though it would be nearly impossible to bring it back to its original state, imagine how many people could be helped in the process. Not only would it help the present generation, but also it would and probably save the future generations that are to come. Everyone knows that without trees there is no oxygen and without any oxygen then there are no humans. More than twenty percent of our world’s oxygen is produced from trees and plants in the amazon rainforest. That’s already one fifth of the entire planets oxygen. And slowly but surely as the amazon continues to be cut down, to be used to make things such as the kitchen table in your dinning room, or to make an over abundant amount of things that we don’t need, or think that we do need. Most people have never pictured a world without trees, or maybe they have. But if they have, then they
And according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, more than two-thirds of all medicines found to have cancer-fighting properties come from rainforest plants. Examples abound. Ingredients obtained and synthesized from a now-extinct periwinkle plant found only in Madagascar (until deforestation wiped it out) had increased the chances of survival for children with leukemia from 20 percent to 80 percent.” (Tropical Rainforests: Nature's Medicine Cabinet). Without some of these medicines, many people would not be able to live the way they do right now, when more people realize what an effect it can have on ones life, will be the day a decrease in deforestation will start to show. And if it doesn’t happen soon there will be no rainforest to save and people will just have to try and adapt to a life without the everyday items and important things they take for granted without even thinking of it. Many foods would also go extinct if we lose the rainforest, fruits like “Banana, Mango, Pineapple, Avocado, Lime, Oranges, Guava, and Passion Fruit.” (“What Rainforest”). The diets of people across the globe would have to change because of the …show more content…
People of Africa in the sub-Saharan region have the highest prevalence rate of hunger in the world, “one person is four is unnourished” (Hunger Statistics). And that’s only in one part of the whole planet, “Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth.” (Hunger Statistics). If we stopped clearing of the rainforest and tried to restore it, even though it would be nearly impossible to bring it back to its original state, imagine how many people could be helped in the process. Not only would it help the present generation, but also it would and probably save the future generations that are to come. Everyone knows that without trees there is no oxygen and without any oxygen then there are no humans. More than twenty percent of our world’s oxygen is produced from trees and plants in the amazon rainforest. That’s already one fifth of the entire planets oxygen. And slowly but surely as the amazon continues to be cut down, to be used to make things such as the kitchen table in your dinning room, or to make an over abundant amount of things that we don’t need, or think that we do need. Most people have never pictured a world without trees, or maybe they have. But if they have, then they