Imagine the beautiful forests of the United States. At one point in time America was covered with one billion acres of towering trees and assorted vegetation. Now imagine, for miles in every direction, a land barren and damaged. More and more land is becoming barren everyday in the United States due to the rapid increase of deforestation. Deforestation results from the removal of trees without sufficient reforestation (the replacement of trees).
Also, the demise of elephants can be attributed mostly to loss of its habitat. Trees need water to survive and because of erosion they are resulting as larger patches of disappearing forest. Then the deforestation
English 101 October 2, 2013 Deforestation and the Red Panda Deforestation is the cutting down of a forest. Forests are cut down for many reasons, including logging, farming, and housing. Deforestation can have many harmful effects, including loss of habitat for many different plants and animal species. Because of deforestation, many plant and animal species (some known and unknown to us) are lost due to the loss of habitat. About 50 thousand species of animals and plants disappear in result of deforestation every year.
Big Industry Farming Deshavira Harden Adv. Comp 135 6/10/12 Bret Fuller Big Industry Farming The purpose of this paper is to show the relationship between big industry farming takeover of the American Food Supply, has lead to the decline in the American Food Supply. During the past 20 years or so more and more small farms find it harder to make a living, or are simply having to go out of business. This leaves the average American with little to no choice when it comes to what is in their foods, and how the foods they consume are produced. This has taken place because, Big Industry has taken over Farming in America; this is not good because it produces a monopoly, and it also leaves no place for people to buy local food.
Following the Auxiliary Service Law in December 1919, which required all able-bodied Germans to work for the war effort, there was a sharp increase of social unrest as Germans felt their rights being curtailed. The winter of 1916-17 was the peak of discontent as the severe food and fuel shortages were at their worst. Civilian deaths from starvation and hypothermia increased from 121,000 in 1916 to 293,000 in 1918 and infant mortality increased by over 50% over the duration of the war. This led to huge resentment among Germans as they questioned the injustice of the loss of lives. 16% of the 1.8million who died at war were conscripted and all families were somehow impacted by the war, which consequently led to a decline in the popularity of the Royal Family.
Firstly, the Everglades are an important ecosystem which reduces flooding and replenish aquifers but human actions are having a huge impact on the landscape. The rapid urban and agricultural development in the area has decreased the size of the wetlands dramatically which affects the organisms found there. This is especially important as it is home to several endangered species. Not only that, but invasive species that threaten existing wildlife by preying on or competing with them. According to Everglades.org, they’ve “contributed to nearly 70 percent of extinctions in the United States” and are the “primary cause of species endangerment.” The water itself is a major cause of decline to the area, firstly because of poor water management leading to water levels being too low or too high at the wrong times has caused a decline in many species.
Furthermore, it would also have a heavy influence on the amount and quality of farming. If the water were to become polluted due to human contamination, then that would result in even less fresh water for farming food. This would be extremely detrimental due to the fact that the population of California is expected to grow from 35 million to 55 million by 2050. Therefore, resources would become even scarcer, and prices, in turn, will sky rocket. Each of these components are a recipe for failure, and would leave the southern part of the state-which contains two-thirds of the state’s population-with very little fresh water
Another big effect of deforestation is the fact that it causes soil erosion. It is estimated that 15,000 acres of topsoil are washed away each year. Which lowers the productivity of the land so it can't be used for growing crops or anything. In 1999 the government of Haiti tried to limit this deforestation, by developing a 15-year Environment Action plan, this plan proposed to by trying to develop an alternative fuel source. The plan is failing due to political instability and lack of
The island was largely deforested and it did not contain any trees more than ten feet tall. Loss of large trees meant that residents were no longer able to build seaworthy vessels, significantly diminishing their fishing abilities. Diamond rejects climate change – the onset of the Little Ice Age - as a cause of the island's deforestation and insists that the dominant factor was overexploitation of the forests by the islanders. The disappearance of the island's trees coincided with a decline of its civilization at around the 17th and 18th Centuries. The decline was manifested in the fact that the islanders stopped constructing the monumental statues for which the island is so famous today.
No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.’...On the West Coast keepers have seen bee population losses in the 30 to 60 percent range. On the East Coast and Texas it gets as high as 70%” (Direct 68). This loss of bee pollination will become a problem for farmers all over the United States in 2012 when the farmers find hat their crops are barren because they weren’t pollinated. This could lad to spiked food prices and a need to import excess food from other countries, causing famine across the United States. The current event that is most directly linked to 2012 is the spike in natural disasters in the US in recent years.