Essay 5: The Amazon and its Impacts
In order to understand the importance of the Amazon River, we need to understand that it is so much more than just another flowing body of water. The health of the planet depends on the Amazon making it one of the most valuable places in the world. The river and the basin that it has created and travels, effects a huge body of vegetation, people, and animals. The Amazon benefits a new and evolving culture, allows continuing diversity in people, plants and animals; it services a vast environment. The Amazon Forest is a “great green continent within our continent” (Balaguer 21). The enormous forest has been referred to as the lungs of our planet, as it takes up a vast amount of South America and …show more content…
The rainforest is an “invaluable global service” protecting the river basin (Fenley 197). The forest will no longer be able to provide the earth by preserving moisture and regulating the water. Deforestation has been caused by the increase of illegal businesses, agriculture, mining, and rubber production. Deforestation will potentially eliminate the beautiful plants that create the Amazon picture. Much of deforestation, for the expansion of the frontier of agriculture, ranching, and logging, has greatly affected the oxygen and carbon dioxide that used to be produced by this area. This is decreasing the chance of promoting a clean-air forest, that could lead to curing or reducing diseases that are constantly evolving in this region and the world. The forest provides a global service of its own. The forest lowers greenhouse gases emitted. Seventy percent of the plants found only in the Amazon forest have shown to have cancer fighting compounds. (Balaguer 16). If these deforestation trends continue, there will be no land left to preserve the historical findings, as well as the medical …show more content…
Clouds of black smoke blots out the sun and covers the skies to the horizon. The timber burning is a result of cutting for lumber, clearing for ranching and mining. As it is destroying the vegetation and habitat of the invaluable Amazon, it is changing the people and their relationship with the river and the forest. The natives have always defended the earth, but their need for income encourages them to work for the companies that are cutting down and burning the forests (Balaguer16). Deforestation of the Amazon can be attributed both to the current residents and incoming immigrants, seeking job opportunities (Fenley 198). In an effort to slow the deforestation, a new trend has developed in which the people that are trying to preserve the forest, pay people not to cut down the trees. However, even after all the devastation, people still seem to not understand that vital environmental benefits of the Amazon jungle are disappearing along with it. As a result, there are irreversible losses to the immense potential for curing diseases and cleaning the air offered by this vast
In order to understand the importance of the Amazon River, we need to understand that it is so much more than just another flowing body of water. The health of the planet depends on the Amazon making it one of the most valuable places in the world. The river and the basin that it has created and travels, effects a huge body of vegetation, people, and animals. The Amazon benefits a new and evolving culture, allows continuing diversity in people, plants and animals; it services a vast environment. The Amazon Forest is a “great green continent within our continent” (Balaguer 21). The enormous forest has been referred to as the lungs of our planet, as it takes up a vast amount of South America and …show more content…
The rainforest is an “invaluable global service” protecting the river basin (Fenley 197). The forest will no longer be able to provide the earth by preserving moisture and regulating the water. Deforestation has been caused by the increase of illegal businesses, agriculture, mining, and rubber production. Deforestation will potentially eliminate the beautiful plants that create the Amazon picture. Much of deforestation, for the expansion of the frontier of agriculture, ranching, and logging, has greatly affected the oxygen and carbon dioxide that used to be produced by this area. This is decreasing the chance of promoting a clean-air forest, that could lead to curing or reducing diseases that are constantly evolving in this region and the world. The forest provides a global service of its own. The forest lowers greenhouse gases emitted. Seventy percent of the plants found only in the Amazon forest have shown to have cancer fighting compounds. (Balaguer 16). If these deforestation trends continue, there will be no land left to preserve the historical findings, as well as the medical …show more content…
Clouds of black smoke blots out the sun and covers the skies to the horizon. The timber burning is a result of cutting for lumber, clearing for ranching and mining. As it is destroying the vegetation and habitat of the invaluable Amazon, it is changing the people and their relationship with the river and the forest. The natives have always defended the earth, but their need for income encourages them to work for the companies that are cutting down and burning the forests (Balaguer16). Deforestation of the Amazon can be attributed both to the current residents and incoming immigrants, seeking job opportunities (Fenley 198). In an effort to slow the deforestation, a new trend has developed in which the people that are trying to preserve the forest, pay people not to cut down the trees. However, even after all the devastation, people still seem to not understand that vital environmental benefits of the Amazon jungle are disappearing along with it. As a result, there are irreversible losses to the immense potential for curing diseases and cleaning the air offered by this vast