Persuasive Essay On Rainforestation

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Rainforest Deforestation
Ahh oxygen, who doesn't love it? Apparently a lot of people because our main source of it is whittling away! Quite quickly if you ask me and it's our fault. It is clear that deforestation must stop and here are the reasons. Deforestation causes multiple problems across the world, like tearing the homes away from cute and endangered animals, to actually killing us by taking away our oxygen source, which is something we (desperately) need.
Now lots of people will be saying things like "But we need trees to make paper and furniture" Yes, these things are important, but cutting down 80% of the world’s forests is shockingly excessive. Not to mention we don't even need to cut down the trees in the rainforest because we've got our own trees here. We only cut down the rainforest trees because they are more colorful and rare which makes us greedy humans want them more and it's disgusting!
Animals, from cute to Horrific, they're such amazing creatures and we're stealing they're home away from them. Did you know that 70% of all plants and animals live in forests and 50% of them in the rainforests? Cutting down
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It is absurd! That so many people contribute to deforestation and yet so few try and fix it, some solutions to deforestation are, planting more trees and employing a number of rules and laws when it comes to cutting down trees. Using the rainforest as a tool instead of a precious part of the earth is disgusting, disgracing and dastardly. Prince Charles once said "Forests are the worlds air conditioning system, the lungs of the planet and we're on the verge of switching it off" How do you feel about flipping that

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