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Global Warming – Deforestation

The patient’s condition is serious. Symptoms are multiple, his breath is noxious. He has a fever, and the efforts to bring it down are not working. Poison has been found in body fluids. When symptoms are treated in one area, more pop up in other body parts. If this were a usual patient, doctors would be inclined to declare the multiple sicknesses as chronic and terminal. Not knowing what else to do, they would just take steps to make the patient as comfortable as possible until the end came. This is not a human patient. It is our home-the earth. The above scenario well illustrates what is happening to our planet, and the one of the main reason for our very ill earth is global warming caused by deforestation.
Most people assume that global warming is caused by burning oil and gas. However in fact between 25 and 30 percent of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere each year-1.6 billion tons – is caused by deforestation. Trees are 50......

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