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Environment
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.
Deforestation means the felling of trees and clearing of forest to make that land available for residential, commercial or industrial purposes.
Deforestation or clearance occurs due to several reasons. They include agricultural activities, logging, urbanization, 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.
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.
Let's make the earth green once again !
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