This is a serious issue that need to tackle and seriously we need to educate some people around us on how we can sustain our environment because the rate at which we received insolation these days is really out of it. It is as if there is nothing like ozone layer in our atmosphere again, people complain alot about too much heat, even when it rains, the rate at which the water evaporates back is very high.
There is need to conserve our environment to tackle all this anomaly and how do we do that? In my last post, I talked on how plants gives life to the entire ecosystem and it is so obvious that plants has alot of role to play in regulating our environment. This shows that we need more plants(trees) in our environment.
Deforestation Problem
The act of cutting down trees without replacement is simply refers to as deforestation and it is something that is very common today in our society. Although, there many reasons for that. Mostly, clearing of land for cultivation and for lumbering activities. Our environment has been tampered with and it is no more in it's natural state any longer and this has led to quite numbers of problem in our environment.
- Soil erosion
- Increase in evaporation
- Change in forest organism
- Extinction of some plants and animals
- Increase in carbon content leading to global warming.
People engages in this act due to so many reasons like I said, majorly for furniture work and for domestic use such as cooking. Though we cannot do without this things, we will always need chair and table at home and firewood for cooking our food but there is a way we can mitigate these problems to sustain our environment.
Afforestation
This simply means planting of trees in our environment, we should always make sure we replace every felling trees to catered for more oxygen and to reduce the carbon content in our surroundings. There should be a kind of public orientation about the effect of cutting trees in our environment so that people will be very much aware of the consequences.
Having more trees in our surrounding will help to shade the ground and serve as canopy. You will agree with me that the difference between a rainforest and a desert region is the presence of trees and the rate at which the sun heat in the desert is higher than we experienced in the rainforest region because there many trees to shade the ground unlike in the desert where the land is expose to direct sunlight all day.
Some plant and animal species has even went into extinction due to our low knowledge about how to sustain our environment. So we need to contribute our quota to our society by telling them how the environment can be sustained and this in return will help the coming generations.
With love,
@Oxygen02