Space vs. Rain Forests?

Question

There so much going into researching space. What about the rain forest? As far as I know, space is going to be around a lot longer than the rain forest the way we are chopping down the trees and destructing it! I think we should be thinking more about the tropical rain forests first! To find unknown species and cures for cancer, hiv/aids, and other dieses needing cures! Which do you think is more important to study?

sorry I was in a hurry, I mispelled words, my apologies.

Answer 1

maybe before looking for cures for everything (i.e. cancer) we should look for their sources (i.e. synthetic sweeteners) and eliminate them! A lot of times it is what we are putting into our bodies or into our own habitats that is causing us to be ill.

I am not by any means promoting rainforest destruction! I am an advocate of rainforest protection, and I agree, we ought to look a little closer to home in our research priorities.

I am taking an agroecology class right now, and the big deal about rainforests is that there is a lot we can learn about inter-species relationships, and we're learning how to model our food production around that (i.e. sustainable agriculture!!!). So for example, there is a fungus that latches on to the roots of a tree and gets sugars from the tree, but in exchange, picks up nitrogen from the soil and trades it to the tree for the sugars. Another example is using natural predator-prey relationships to control pests. For example, introducing a wasp population to control aphids instead of spraying chemical pesticides.

Yay for rainforests!

Answer 2

This is most definitely true. In fact the destruction of the rain forests may have reached the point where they are almost beyond recovery. Without the rain forests, global warming will accelerate to the degree that the earth could eventually be almost intolerably hot and dry.

Answer 3

We should be concentrating on both. I think that we need to study space because at the rates that the rain forrests are being eliminated we are gonna have to go somewhere else. Earth will no longer be able to sustain life without the rain forests.

Answer 4

I agree that they are both vitally important to our future. Unfortunately politics gets in the way. The US can go into space all it wants (I wish we would go more!) because no one country owns space. But we can't just go into the rain forests and save them - they belong to other countries. We can't go around telling other countries how to manage their own resources, all we really can do is offer our help.

Answer 5

I don't think it wise to ignore any facet of science.

Being optimistic, there is much more awareness of the environment than there was 50 years ago. Before then it was full steam ahead without regard for the environment.

All we need to do now is convince the developing nations to be aware. There is a tendency for them to subconsciously go by the credo " the west did their development without due regard for the environment, so now it is our turn".

An example is the use of CFCs. The west has banned them, but India and China - full steam ahead.

Answer 6

Space will always be there but we are destroying our natural resources that we need to survive. Unless we plan to put a colony in space in the next hundred years, we are going to destroy the world for our grandchildren.

Answer 7

im naturalist so come protect rainforest, also secondary forest and mangroove forest and another forest

Answer 8

space