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By: Júlia Osório and Catarina Araujo
Napkins, notebooks, office papers, toilet paper and pencils are all objects that humans use on a daily basis that contribute to the destruction and exploitation of forests. Due to human action, more than 78% of the earth’s original forests have been degraded. Even though more than half of the forests have already been compromised, action can still be taken to help reduce logging, here are a few steps that can be taken to help the environment.
- Reduce paper and wood consumption
Although trees serve an important role in human life, by reducing the amount of paper and wood consumption you may play an important role in helping our environment and breathing forests.
- Reduce Oil Consumption
The burning of oils including gases as well as coal, threatens the stability of global climate. Scientists estimate that if current paths are maintained global temperatures will rise to between 2° and 9° fahrenheit in the next century. This rate is faster than in the past thousand years. Oil combustion can cause toxins to poison ecosystems and indegiones lands, leading to deforestation.
- Reduce Beef Consumption
The Brazilian Beef industry market, including consumption and exportation, influences deforestation as they impact forests soils. In the amazon forest there is a barrier called litterfall (serrapilheira) containing organic matter, serving as the main fertilizer for the arenous soil. This serves as a buster for trees and animals to grow. If animals are extracted in great amounts from these areas, this can interrupt the growth of trees, as they will have no nutrients to feed upon. If this barrier is no longer present in the Amazonian forests trees will not be able to grow and the humidity will not be contained into these areas, therefore it will turn into a desert, and we will lose one of your most important oxygen producers.
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