Homo sapiens are aerobic living organisms. Homo sapiens need oxygen to survive and reproduce. You are a homo sapiens. You need oxygen to survive. The only way in which there will be oxygen surrounding the face of the Earth, is by plants and other organisms converting carbon dioxide into oxygen during photosynthesis. The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest left on the planet. This rainforest is responsible for producing 20+ percent of the oxygen on Earth (Taylor, 1). That is over 1/5 the total oxygen within the atmosphere of Earth.
Can you imagine losing 1/5 the total amount of oxygen on the planet? The lack of that 20 percent of oxygen would make it feel as if you were a thousand plus feet higher in elevation everywhere you went. …show more content…
It is estimated that roughly have of all the existing animal and insect species live in the Amazon Jungle (Taylor, 1). Where will all those animals and insects go if their home is destroyed? The simple answer is that most of those animals will perish. Subsequently causing many species to go extinct removing them from the face of the Earth forever. The loss of all those species is unimaginable. That would mean that many of the animals we grew up reading in books and learning about in school would no longer be around. Many species of monkeys, tigers, jaguars, snakes, sloths, and birds would be gone forever. In my opinion, the large cat family of animals in the most majestic, well-known creatures in existence. The large cat family would suffer indefinitely due to there being no other habitat around Brazil that those creatures could survive. I do not want my children to grow up never learning about Bengal tigers and black jaguars simply due to our inability to think of the animals lives that we are affecting from destroying the rainforest. Another thing to imagine is that a lot more of the insect population would survive compared to the large animal population. An area with insects everywhere and no large animals to eat them will throw off the natural food chain and cause Brazil and other countries around the Amazon to become a place in which no wants to
Can you imagine losing 1/5 the total amount of oxygen on the planet? The lack of that 20 percent of oxygen would make it feel as if you were a thousand plus feet higher in elevation everywhere you went. …show more content…
It is estimated that roughly have of all the existing animal and insect species live in the Amazon Jungle (Taylor, 1). Where will all those animals and insects go if their home is destroyed? The simple answer is that most of those animals will perish. Subsequently causing many species to go extinct removing them from the face of the Earth forever. The loss of all those species is unimaginable. That would mean that many of the animals we grew up reading in books and learning about in school would no longer be around. Many species of monkeys, tigers, jaguars, snakes, sloths, and birds would be gone forever. In my opinion, the large cat family of animals in the most majestic, well-known creatures in existence. The large cat family would suffer indefinitely due to there being no other habitat around Brazil that those creatures could survive. I do not want my children to grow up never learning about Bengal tigers and black jaguars simply due to our inability to think of the animals lives that we are affecting from destroying the rainforest. Another thing to imagine is that a lot more of the insect population would survive compared to the large animal population. An area with insects everywhere and no large animals to eat them will throw off the natural food chain and cause Brazil and other countries around the Amazon to become a place in which no wants to