Difficulties Created By Deforestation

Christelle GSO245: Social Impact of TechnologyAssignment 4: Deforestation “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I am asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs. Oh, please do not cut down another one” – The Lorax, 2012. The animated film The Lorax, based on Dr. Seuss's novel about deforestation and greed, released in 2012, depicts a world without trees. According to the Cambridge dictionary, deforestation is described as the widespread cutting down of trees or the destruction of forests by humans (Cambridge Dictionary, 2023). Some of the major difficulties created by deforestation are the disruption of the carbon and hydrologic cycles, and the reduction of species diversity.It's crucial to understand what the carbon cycle is to completely understand why the disruption of the carbon cycle caused by deforestation vital is. In a nutshell, the carbon cycle is nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which circulate from the atmosphere to organisms on Earth and back again into the atmosphere (National Ocean Service, 2023). Although trees store carbon, deforestation causes the carbon to be released back into the atmosphere. This, combined with the other types of greenhouse