rest assured that the majority of the decision making world will not stop cutting down trees. There is no need to complain about peope who disagree with you.
quote:Originally posted by WJ: people complain about trees they dont pay your bills they dont make your food they dont really make most of the air thats done by underwater plants
\\The rainforests give almost 20% of the OXYGEN, not air, in our atmosphere. We would be hard pressed to live without them.
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I would be like destroying several blocks of residential houses (with the people still in side them) and putting something permanent in its place. And then completely ignore the people displaced whose homes have been demolished.
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goleafs, you are talking to the wrong person about botany. Old and large trees make larger amounts of oxygen and resparate faster than smaller/younger trees (accept "adolecent" trees). Also, when you cut down a stand of old hard-wood forests and plant new ones, I doubt that you are going to put back all the kinds of trees, shrubs and other plats so that the bio-diversity of the region is restored. If you cut down trees in a large stand, it is better just to leave nature work it's course over hundreds of years, so that the woods will return to a more natural state. Furthermore, when a great blocker of sunlight (ie. trees) is destroye, different kinds of plants can grow. Now, faster growing flora will overtake such plants as hostas, ferns, oxalis, orchids, and other shade-loving plants and strangle them in brambles, thus destroying possibly precious populations of flaura. But when you cut down trees, not only other plants are killed, but animals. Forests support many different kinds of animals that are dependent on large stands of hard-woods to survive, and these populations are jepreodized when one cuts the forest. If you have forgotten, though, trees also hold soil, and erosion has caused many areas a lot of trouble, because of strip-mining in mountains, especially in Pennsilvania and West Virginia. But goleafs, do you want to cut down trees? You seen to want to destroy forests and biodiversity. Have you forgotten, that, after it is all said and done, a stand of stumps looks bad?
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We may be able to plant them again but how can we if the reason we are cutting them down is to put something else in its place like buildings, roads, parking lots, etc.?
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i was just wondering though... now why would environmentalists make you sick or something?? In fact you should be an environmentalist coz hey, you got the word "leaf" in your YN name...
its not that cutting treees is not allowed... Sure, its allowed, i mean, all the papers and the pencils we are using are from trees right? The thing is, most people or loggers cut down trees so much that they forgot one thing: Cutting down a lot of trees can lead to soil erosion and can lead to destruction of natural habitats of animals.. Yes, its ok if you plant trees in replacement for the ones that have been cut down but still, people should not overdo the cutting of trees. Most loggers nowadays dont heed the warning from the government and from those activists... Also, if the government doesnt care, well, then... loggers can just do what they want... which is wrong. There should be a balance in everything.
Because when you cut down a forest, you're destroying the homes of countless organisms and decreasing their populations and populations of the creatures that need those organisms to survive and so on and so forth. They keep the soil from eroding away too quickly by rain, lakes, rivers, oceans, etc. And they absorb a lot of the pollution we put in the air everday.
I thank trees everyday, because they really deserve it.
quote:Why is it bad to cut down trees. I see nothing wrong with it we will plant them again.
Unfortunately, that’s not usually the case. With all of the houses and subdivisions going up, trees are disappearing and not being replanted because of lack of space. And, when trees are replanted, keep in mind that it takes a lot longer for a tree to grow then cut them down.
quote:All the liberals thes days not wanting to cut trees down makes me sick.
Woah now. Lets not bring politics into it. I know there are plenty of democrats and some republicans who don't want trees to be cut down and wasted like they are being wasted now. Why does the fact that people want to save trees make you sick? Trees are living things, they deserve to be protected.
quote:I would just like to know what is wrong with it. We use them every day.
Indeed, but we could be using less. If people were to recycle more, we wouldn't have to cut down as many trees.
quote:If you are an Environmentist think again becasue you use trees every day. you arethe ones hurting nature becasue you use the most of it.
Say it with me kid. Environmentalist. Being an environmentalist does not mean you use more trees- it means you use less. With every paper product that I buy, I check to make sure that it’s made with consumer recycled materials. Being an environmentalist doesn't mean that you don't use trees. It means that you're more aware of what you use and make an effort to reduce the use of non-recycled products.
Ponder this: If we continued to cut down trees without replanting, we would have no trees. No trees would mean that we wouldn’t have enough conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygen. Therefore, most living things depending on oxygen would die.
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Plain and simple, destroying forests is destroying ecosystems. Is it really right to support companies that tear down large portions of rainforest each year, endangering thousands of species? No it is. Besides the species loss, trees take a long time to regrow. Cuting down a tree and replanting could take up to 100 years, and that is not good for the environment. Also, most of the time people don't replant. They chop down and make way for some big shopping mall. Certainly everyone uses paper products, its really hard to avoid using them, but we are being wasteful, and we shouldn't be destroying so much forest.
it wouldnt hurt to reduce how many trees we cut down, especially since there are alternative ways to make paper. but ultimately its not that simple either, alot of people would lose jobs, and its not easy to just shut down an entire industry.
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