Analysis of Medicine Man

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Medicine Man Our world has a vast, interesting, and mysterious environment. The Medicine Man is a movie that should make us concerned and rethink about our environment. The eventful things occurring to our environment are something that should concern us as a society in a variety of aspects, one of them displayed in The Medicine Man. In reality (and as shown in the movie), plants and other various natural resources are capable of helping greatly of today’s population for things as mild as fighting a cold, or as crazy as treating an HIV positive patient. This is what ordinary people are not aware that a vast amount of medicine used for all sorts of things, such as a cure and relief, comes from various plants, both common and rare. This is a concern, the amounts of pollution produced by various common apparatuses used in the average society has a high influence in the loss of vegetation and rainforests all over the world. Such acts can have a negative effect in various proportions, such as the economic stability of a country, and the chance of success it can have when it comes to the possibility of striking a trade deficit with its surrounding nations. With the loss of all this vegetation, remedies to critical medical conditions can vanish. Deforestation can occur for several reasons. The examples given in “The Medicine Man” are forest fires, and human interaction, one of many causes of the loss of forests and vegetation in urban, or rural areas. Some of the hazards are very difficult to prevent, such as forest fires. Others, such as the use of valuable trees to make desks, paper, and other resources used by most people today, can easily be stopped. There are always alternate resources that can perform the same tasks as wood can. We have technology to mass-produce various types of materials that can replace the use of wood to improve the environment. If forests aren’t

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