Deforestation

Hello and welcome to your channel One L.

I G M.

A. For today's news segment and we are covering deforestation.

So our segment is called, We all love the birds

and the bees.

So quick cut down them trees.

We're gonna head over to Xavier gallus over wherever he's

at and he's going to explain deforestation.

Hi Xavier here at the L I G.

M. A.

News today's topic, steve forestation.

We're gonna talk about these bad boys, we're talking about

these trees behind me.

So uh you might be wondering what is deforestation?

So deforestation is the permanent removal of trees to make

room for something besides the trees for the forest.

This can include clearing the land for agriculture or for

grazing or using the timber for fuel, construction or manufacturing.

We need the forest as they cover more than 30

of the Earth's surface land surface that is.

These forest areas can provide food, medicine and fuel for

more than a billion people worldwide.

These forests provide over 3.4 million people with jobs in

just in the forest sector.

And in addition, they add about about 41 million other

jobs that tie in to people having jobs around forests.

But there's one problem the forests are in danger.

Yes, deforestation.

The topic today, we've all had, we've had passed occurrence

with major deforestation in North America between 16 hundreds in

the late 18 hundreds, about half of the forest and

the eastern part of our continent.

Or cut down for timber and farming, but deforestation.

Not just a problem here in the United States, over

in Uganda In the past 25 years and has been

rough. They've lost over 63 of its timber, 63 gone

forgotten. Never back there working on right now, but never

back 63 gone 25 years.

The problem with these people cut down all these trees

are the forces is important provides many things, but the

most important is the water it secretes.

Studies show that 3/4 of Earth's freshwater comes from forested

watersheds and the loss of the tree can affect air

and water quality.

The U.

N. Did a report that found over half the global

population relies on these forested watersheds for their drinking water,

their irrigation and other agriculture, which is just crazy.

Like the industry is built on the forest watershed, which

is just unbelievable to think about.

The problem is deforestation.

Is it not only removes the vegetation, it is important

for removing carbon dioxide from the air, but the act

of cleaning the forces also produces greenhouse gas emissions.

Now, you might be confused once a greenhouse gas emission,

greenhouse gases are gases in the Earth's atmosphere that trap

the heat so the sunlight comes through in the atmosphere.

But the heat that the sunlight brings, it can't get

out so it comes in which is great, keeps us

warm. Can't get out global warming.

So there's a lot, I mean there's a lot of

greenhouse gases.

Um One of the main one is water vapor and

also carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide.

So going with the water vapor portion of the segment,

um the deforestation and the tropical regions it affects the

way the water vapour is produced over the canopy.

Because it's tropical, it's supposed to rain a lot.

But when these trees are cut down it causes reduced

rank. Why?

Because a study show that parts of the amazon rainforest

were converted to agricultural that that that they were cut

down deforested, turned into agriculture or economic land and higher

sore soil and air temperatures which lead to drought conditions.

In comparison, these forces land have rates of evaporation for

about three times higher, adding more water vapor theater.

So with all these trees keeping the water vapor in

the canopies and keeping it down on the ground, it

just evaporated and went there and it never came back

down and just evaporate.

It's terrible.

I know.

So another huge thing about trees, as everybody knows, is

there a huge, huge, huge, huge on collecting carbon di

accent These tropical trees are alone are estimated to provide

about 23 of the climate mitigation which is reducing or

preventing emission of greenhouse gases and that's needed to offset

climate change.

But as climate change continues, trees play an important role

in carbon to question or the capture and storage of

excess carbon dioxide.

So these trees are needed to take in this carbon

dioxide and produce oxygen with it.

But if we don't have these trees the excess co

two carbon dioxide has nowhere to go.

Yeah. So these tree canopies keep the poor soils most

moist and more resistant to the wildfires to the droughts

and floods.

Can we also blocks the sun rays during the day

and holds in the heat at night.

So without it the environment gets hotter during the day

because the trees aren't there to block it.

Yeah. Well thank you Xavier.

And so you told us many of the problems.

What are some solutions to come back from deforestation?

Great. Great great question.

So what are some solutions come back from deforestation?

These forests?

They can be restored and usually when they go and

cut down these trees and the forest they leave them

and the only hope for those is for them trees

to re go through the saplings that are drought which

takes immense amount of time.

Another thing that they do is they replant trees.

Um The business we work with, make sure that for

everyone tree chopped down, there's one tree replanted and the

goal of this frustration is to return the force to

its original state before it's cut down because the sooner

the clear areas reforested, the quicker the ecosystem can repair

itself. That way wildlife comes back.

So afterwards wildlife for return and water systems we will

reestablish and then the carbon, the excess co two will

finally be sequestered in soils will be replenished which is

just great.

Great great, great friend environment and that's all I got

for you guys.

So thanks for having me.

Thank you for that wonderful presentation in behavior.

Now, continuing on with our segment, we turn to Miss

Jersey Dallas where she will give us some random facts

about deforestation.

Hi, I'm Jersey.

And here are some random facts about the D.

First station.

Number one wheelies forces the size of Belgium each year.

Isn't that crazy?

Number two?

Can you leave that?

Half of the world's tropical rain forest have been destroyed

since the 1960s.

Number three in 2020.

The world the world lost an entire soccer fields worth

of primary ran first every second for every four seconds.

Number for first release carbon dioxide when they are cleared

or burn roughly equal to M musicians.

Yeah. From all the cars and trucks on earth where

you get to help where you can help at home

avoid using palm palm oils instead of vegetable oil.

Use sunflower oil, corn oil, olive oil or coconut coconut

oil. If the product has more than 40 saturated that

it contains this pomeroy assembly, avoid products with the word

palm. And these are in that, wow, great job, Miss

Jersey. And as she was gone, I was looking up

some statistics and I found this interesting one that talked

about if deforestation were a country, it ranked third on

the list with china having a lot of gas emissions,

the United States having a lot of gas emissions and

a tropical forest would be next.

The deforestation of them.

That's just crazy.

Another picture I found interesting was on the right side

of this road, it looks like a desert.

This is what the deforestation does.

The rainforest looked like this and they turned it in

the best.

Another interesting one is this is what they're turning into

just plain old farmland just for cows.

I mean look, the grass isn't even barely growing.

That's that's that's crazy.

Now we're going to turn to X, who is a

catholic student who's going to teach us about what the

catholic church teaches about deforestation.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Pope Francis straight up destroying the rainforest is the same

and we need to respect God's creation.

He spoke out about deforestation for presenting a very personal

remark, adding when I look at America, my homeland, so

many forests all cut that have become land, they can

no longer give life.

He said, If we destroy creation, the creation will destroy

us. The church teaches is that if the relationship with

God and his nature is placed aside, there would be

an impoverished meaning of the land.

Nature is rediscovered.

If nature is rediscovered and it's creature lee dimension, channels

of communication with it can be established and it's written,

symbolic meaning can be understood.

This allows us to enter into its realm of mystery.

This room opens up a path from man to God,

creator of heaven and earth.

This is a part from the political Council for Justice

and Peace, From the social doctrine of the church 2005.

So straight up, Pope Francis said, cutting down the rainforest

is a sin.

Thanks for having me.

Why, thank you X, and that will wrap up our

segment today on L.

I. G.

M. A News.

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