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    heat, and then warms the atmosphere. While methane doesn’t linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, it is initially far more devastating to the climate because of how effectively it absorbs heat. More heat, less rain, more drought, no more Amazon, a quite simple turn of events going wrong extremely fast. There are Land Sparing policies in act to help reduce greenhouse gasses. The land sparing policies rely on market mediated changes to production, consumption and change. Deforestation…

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    Deforestation of the Amazon The Amazon is a rainforest that covers a crazy 6.7 million km² of land which is 40% of South America. The Amazon is so large that it covers 9 countries; Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana! The Amazon Rainforest is a home to approximately 10 million species of animals, plants and insects. Deforestation has become a great issue with the Amazon Rainforest since 1978 and 750,000 km² have been destroyed. Although…

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    How Factory Farming Contributes to Global Warming Over the past few decades, global warming has been one of the biggest problems. Fundamentally, it is a fact that there are a number of causes in connection to global warming, and factory farming is one of them. A factory is an industrial site or group of buildings where products are made, normally consisting of machine and a large number of workers, and factory farming is a farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in…

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    The Amazon Rain Forest The Amazon rain forest is a beautiful and unique place on this earth. Its home to many different species of animals and plants. In the world today there are over 150 acres of the Amazon being cut down every hour. This essay will be discussing the importance of the animals, plants, and photosynthesis and how it is needed everywhere today including the amazon. If the rain forest is being cut down, were losing oxygen for ourselves and the animals who live there. The…

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    The Amazon Rainforest; what all lurks within has been somewhat of a mystery. Although, what isn’t a mystery is the deforestation happening there. Some can argue that deforestation can actually benefit society, but is it benefits really long term? Is it really worth it to hack down one of the largest forests just to get some short term profits instead of thinking about the climate impact just the rainforest has by itself on the world? Even so, the environmental problems that we face do not just…

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    Why is the Amazon important to Earth? Have you ever wonder, what will happen when trees in the Amazon rainforest are all deforest? The Amazon is the biggest forest in the world. Also, knowing as the lungs of Earth. While having the biggest river in the world. The Amazon rainforest is 5,500,000 square kilometers. More than half the size of Unite States of America. Despite these fact, the Amazon forest is in a threat of disappearing. The Amazon rainforest is getting deforestation at…

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    come. Everyone knows that without trees there is no oxygen and without any oxygen then there are no humans. More than twenty percent of our world’s oxygen is produced from trees and plants in the amazon rainforest. That’s already one fifth of the entire planets oxygen. And slowly but surely as the amazon continues to be cut down, to be used to make things such as the kitchen table in your dinning room, or to make an over abundant amount of things that we don’t need, or think that we do need.…

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    I think Ramstad School should give the money we raise to the rainforest foundation, because this is a very exposed area, where thousands of trees and plants get cut down every day. It is very awful, and the rainforest is important for all over the world.…

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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…

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    Do you not love the wonderful odor of nature? As you may already know Georgia has a state park called Providence Canyon that may also be known as the Little Grand Canyon. Where everything is just made all naturally? Nature is full of living plants, rocks, forests, and many other different kinds of animals. They help things form little by little. This is called geology and is the process by which things are formed, moved , or changed .The geology of nature has created a beautiful canyon known…

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