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            One of my Google alert searches was Rainforest Destruction. I believe this is an extremely important environmental problem. I recently developed an interested in the causes and effects of cutting down the rainforest, after reading another classmate’s blog on Friday. I was not aware of the harmful aftermath of something so beautiful.

            A website called “Rainforest Facts” came across my Google alerts today with some very shocking information. If people would become more educated on how detrimental cutting down these rare rainforests are, the problem could possibly cease. The website demonstrates how 14% percent of the earth used to be covered by rainforest, with now just a slim 6% percent remaining. Experts claim, “The last remaining rainforest’s can be consumed in less than forty years.”

            The website refers to rainforests as the “lungs of our planet”, by constantly recycling the carbon dioxide in the air, rainforest are the main producers of oxygen.  One of the problems that really interest me is that many medicines come from the rainforest. Since my plan is to go to Physician Assistant School, I am curious as to what Doctors or PA’s would prescribe their patients with out all these necessary medicines. The health care advances would decrease tremendously and knowledge on new cures and medicines would be a thing of the past. It is thought that if there was ever a cure for AIDS or cancer, it would be found within the rainforest. Cancer and AIDS are too main causes of death today.  Do we honestly think it is more important to have extra land for houses and business’s than to have a cure for a disease that is killing our loved ones or ourselves? I do not think so.

            To conclude, there are excessive problems that are coming from such this irresponsible action, such as different species becoming extinct, the amount of Indians living in the rainforests to decrease and ignoring that cures for diseases are out there. The rainforest is more economically important than any reason people believe is justifying cutting rainforests down. Hopefully one day, people will realize what a huge impact Rainforest deforestation has on our planet, and find ways to convince people that it’s not worth the risk.