Question

write an essay on the impact of deforestation in climate

Answer 1

Deforestation is the elimination of existing trees from the earth; attributable factors include urbanization, logging, ranching, and farming and to some extent land speculation. Land speculation can be included as cleared land is more valuable than forested land. Deforestation, done in the name of progress, and the long-term, devastating effects of it, is killing our planet.
To understand the effects of deforestation one must understand the reasoning behind the decision to clear forestlands. Only in recent history, have studies been conducted to measure the impact that deforestation has placed upon the Earth. 
Urbanization, or the clearing of land to build, is deforestation done in the name of progress. Land has been cleared for grazing and construction of roads and buildings


Another cause of deforestation is ranching and farming. Land must be cleared in order to cultivate crops or to raise livestock. Grazing land is needed to sustain cattle herds, sheep and goats. Also roads, highways and railroads are needed to transport crops once they are marketed and to transport livestock to slaughterhouses. Philip Fearnside also reports that much of the deforestation done by agriculture in Brazil in scale to the size of the operation, “The association of major swings in deforestation rate with macroeconomic factors such as money availability and inflation rate is one indication that much of the clearing is done by those who invest in medium to large cattle ranches, rather than by small farmers who use family labor” (Fearnside 682).
Among the negative effects that deforestation has on the earth are global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, soil erosion and weather pattern changes. Global warming is the cause of more severe storms due to the warming of the ocean. The last few years of Atlantic hurricanes have increased in intensity due to warmer waters. The storms of the last decade have been more destructive than ever before. In addition, torrential flooding is also attributable to global warming; and with flooding, comes mudslides.