In the Fight Against Climate Change, Not All Forests Are Equal

We obviously want to protect our forests since they emit carbon dioxide and provide us with more oxygen.  However, the slow decline of these complete forests have a greater impact than expected.  Apparently only 20 percent of tropical forests are pristine.  This means that in the tropics they are only in control of 40 percent of carbon storage.  The consistent loss of these immaculate intact forests provide a huge difference in our climate change.  Looking at this problem, the most logical thing is to stop logging and road building, but that is a hard possibility.  Bringing this concern to more people may create a change since they would become aware of it.  Sometimes making people couscous of problems allows them to understand and spread the word.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/climate/climate-change-forests.html

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  1. AnonymousNovember 6, 2019 at 6:27 AM

    I really do not think deforestation is as big of a problem as it is portrayed to be. in 2005 there were an estimated 400 billion trees on earth (61 trees per person) and now in 2019 there's an estimate 3.01 trillion trees on earth (400 trees per person). while yeah we are cutting down forests however they are coming back faster than they are going down.

    https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-we-found-out-there-are-three-trillion-trees-earth/

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