I am brazilian, How it will be our planet without the Amazonian forest?

Answer 1

Its not really about air. Young trees generate the most oxygen by consuming CO2. Although, certainly the amazon basin generates a significant amount of O2. The real problem is that the Amazon basin is an incredibly diverse and mature ecosystem. There are probably hundreds of species in the Amazon that we have not yet discovered. It also would not surprise me if the Amazon generates half the new species worldwide at this time. They say we get lots of new medicines or medical discoveries from the Amazon. IMO, the loss of the Amazon rainforest would be devastating for humanity. It really is one of the last large rainforests in the world and (outside of Indonesia) it is probably one of the last areas of the world largely unaffected by modern humanity. Wouldn't it be nice if we could avoid leaving humanity's footprint on at least 1 area of the world?

Answer 2

Take a pill and calm down I think younger people has a distorted sense of reality here is why, when i was a teenager they claim that we were destroying the equivalent of a football field of Amazon jungle every day, well if you did the math from 1970 till today there should not be any jungle left. The last time I looked the Amazon jungle is still there. for the other person that claim there used to be more trees long ago,(bull) When the Europeans landed here there were less trees, remember when loggers cut down a forest they replant more trees than they remove it is in their best interest when it was just the natives here there were forest fires( mostly caused by lightning) that would burn out of control till either it rained or it destroyed an entire forest at least today we have the ability to limit the damage.

Answer 3

I worked 12 years in Ecuador and the rain forest is always winning. We spent 1 million dollars a month trying to beat the forest back off just the roads.

Answer 4

Meat-eating plays a massive impact on the destruction of the rainforest- forests ripped down to make soy-based animal feed to fatten the farm animals of the west.

It makes me sick to think what we are doing to our planet.

Ah well, what goes around comes around- we torture and mutilate millions of animals, screw up the environment from the rainforest destruction and methane emissions and the countdown to destruction begins. How people are so ignorant and wasteful and selfish in these times is beyond me.

Answer 5

Trees give us oxygen, which we need to breathe.
Trees breathe in the exhaust fumes of cars, trucks and basses.
By killing trees, we are hurting our planet and slowly killing ourselves.

Thousands of years ago this planet was covered with trees. Through the years mankind cut them down and use the wood, but failed to replant. The problems with the atmosphere we are experiencing today are because of the lack of trees.

When the Amazon is gone, our death will not be far behind.