Destruction Of The Amazon Essay

The destruction of the Earth’s Lungs: During any given moments in the average human’s typical day, a large portion of the Amazon rainforest will have just been destroyed by bulldozing government agencies that work on an industrial scale in efforts to increase marketing globalization. The Amazon in South America is the largest rainforest on Earth despite it’s increasing destruction, the Amazon remains as half the planet’s remaining rainforest, inhabiting a diverse group of species of plants and animals. The Amazon continues to play an essential role in cleaning the Earth’s air by absorbing global emissions of carbon dioxide produced by the human race through use of cars, and power stations. However, deforestation in the Amazon is essentially the …show more content…
According to Michael Daley, associate professor of environmental science at Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts, the main problem produced by the practice of deforestation is it’s impact on the Earth’s global carbon cycle. In large quantities, greenhouse gases, create climate change. Oxygen is unable to absorb thermal infrared radiation like greenhouse gases are able to, therefore, the deforestation of rainforest trees lessens the amount of carbon stored while simultaneously releasing the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide into the air which according to the 2012 study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accounts for 82% of all greenhouse gas. While Carbon’s impact from deforestation is alarming another greenhouse gas affected by deforestation induces direct effected on climate change. The exchange of water vapor and carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and land surface directed effects climate change as the global vapor flow has decreased by 4%, according to the National Academy of Sciences. This small decrease in vapor flow can change the natural weather pattern and completely reverse regular climate