Modern Day Plague Of Deforestation

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As our world grows, our needs grow too, however, everything we take from mother nature is not returned. Described as a modern day plague, deforestation is quickly eliminating our forests, before our very eyes. Forests are cut down for many different reasons but it is all for the profit. The items created from the wood is sold and in return money. Ignoring nature and the world around them, people take in consideration only their lives, and ignoring nature's well being. Trees have been around for 385 million years while humans have been on earth for about 200 thousand years. We are killing an over 350 million year old species, they are supposed to last much longer than any individual human, but in the direction we are going, it seems it is only

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