Hello everyone!
Well, this is my first time participating in this community, so I hope to do it the right way. For this little post, I wanted to select a topic with which to let off steam, more than anything else because of our current situation that is currently being experienced regarding global warming and the constant deterioration of the planet in general.
Let's talk a little about deforestation.
The planet is a pretty big place, isn't it? There's land here and there, and an absurd amount of living things that make life here. I don't want to get into religious issues or any beliefs, so I'll just speak according to what science proposes: In the beginning, we were supposed to live according to nature and our primitive instincts, so technically we were no different from any ancestor that lived with us.
But over the course of time, human beings have become "superior" thinking beings, beings capable of detaching themselves from all those primitive thoughts and from anything that attached them to that "wild" ancestor. This, in a way, has disconnected us from nature and its basic functioning, how all living beings are in a constant struggle to survive, and how we were also part of that food chain. We have reached a point where schools have to teach us about the importance of nature and how we could not live without it...
But for what?
Since more than a century ago, in the case of Venezuela, exactly since 1870 education took shape and has become what it is today. Obviously, we are all taught the importance of nature, and I assume that since those times the same has also been taught, but all this for what?
Unfortunately, we are living in the midst of a natural crisis that will most likely have disastrous repercussions for years to come. And all this was our fault.
All these years of education, technological, cultural, personal and basically all the growth of the human race has been amazingly immeasurable, and all this to end up causing irreparable disasters to the planet we live in?
What living being destroys the home in which it lives?
The society in which we live today is built with a hierarchy, there are people who have the most power and those who are in charge of directing an entire population, and despite ALL the warnings that have emerged talking about this great problem, the vast majority of countries have turned a blind eye to the problem of deforestation and how this contributes to the destruction of our planet.
Trees, literally, are part of our source of life. Thanks to them we have the oxygen that allows us to live on this planet and they also contribute to protecting us from the sun's rays (which indirectly we also make more intense due to the destruction of the ozone layer by greenhouse gases).
Deforestation simply has a myriad of consequences that can affect us directly or indirectly: Just think of the many cases of deforestation where they destroy entire habitats of different species of animals, where do these animals migrate to? Most probably they have nowhere to go, and end up deriving in other problems such as the danger of extinction of that species. Just look at the case of polar bears, where will polar bears migrate to with the constant melting of their habitat? It is incredible to think that by cutting down a tree, you are contributing to the destruction of a polar bear's habitat, regardless of whether they are on the other side of the world.
What am I getting at with all this?
Deforestation, in my opinion, is causing a lot of havoc worldwide and there are still no strict measures or sanctions to prevent this activity. I don't see the point in encouraging the great natural crisis we are going through considering that wood itself is mostly used for decorative purposes.. lol.
The current governments are doing a mediocre job, and at least in the case of Venezuela, due to all the economic and social problems we have nowadays, deforestation and the whole world crisis nowadays is something that has not even been mentioned xd.
In your country how do they handle deforestation, have they made progress, and what do you think about the repercussions of deforestation?
Thank you very much for reading all this.