"സെന്റ് തോമസ് ഹൈസ്കൂൾ,ആനിക്കാട്/അക്ഷരവൃക്ഷം/ Environment" എന്ന താളിന്റെ പതിപ്പുകൾ തമ്മിലുള്ള വ്യത്യാസം

<p> Trees play  a big  role in  such  preservation, as, without  trees, the earth  will degenerate into some kind of desert.

               Ralph Waldo Emerson once said "Nature never  hurries, atom by  atom little by little, she  achieves her  work. Before  a tree  becomes  a full-fledged tree  it  passes  through  many  stages  - seed, seedling, sapling and then tree.  Some trees take  years to  become real trees. But look at  man ! How cruelly  he  cuts  them  down  in just a few  minutes to  use  it as  fuel,  for  furniture  work,  construction  works  and  even  to  make a paper.  Sometime  man  destroys  entire forests  to  convert  into  farmlands  or to  make  factories  and  residential areas.  Large  scale  deforestation  brings  about  climatic  changes.  Even in  Kerala  there  are  climatic changes  because of  the large scale destruction of forests.<br>

Deforestation or clearance  occurs  due to several reasons.  They include  agricultural  activities, logging, urbanisation, desertification of  land and soil erosion, mining and forest fires. As can be seen, most of them are caused by  man whereas  a couple of them - like desertification and forest fires - could be natural causes.  But even  those are  aided by  man through defective use of land  and carelessness. <br>

       The  effects  of  Deforestation  are  calamitous. Deforestation  brings  climate  imbalance. It  increases  global warming.  It  causes  soil  erosion.  It  causes  floods  in  some  areas  and  droughts  in  some  other  areas. There  is  the  danger of  wild life  extinction. If  we destroy  nature, nature has  a way of  destroying  us.  Today let's  pledge  that  each  one of us will  plant  at least ten  trees. <br>