Trees play many important roles in the environment and are an essential factor in keeping our lives enjoyable. Trees serve other vital roles such as providing quality air for us to breathe. This is important because humans and animals require clean, breathable oxygen levels as it is crucial for survival.
In the evolution of industries people are in need land and fail to realize to the effect of deforestation on the ecosystem. They cut trees and are often never replaced. This act of deforestation leads to global warming, due to an increased presence of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. Additionally, it disturbs the water cycle. It is clear that when there are no trees, different types of calamities are inevitable. Calamities such as, more chance of floods and erosion; extinction of wild animals, which happen to be of high importance in the ecosystem. The video above give us a vu of deforestation and the reflection on our environment .
Questions .
a) How can we overcome the crisis of deforestation ?
b) What makes deforestation so difficult to stop ?
c) What a rapid solution can we bring ?
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It’s great that you’ve honed in on the specificity of deforestation—and I love your use of the word “calamities” here. You’ve clarified the WHAT here, as well as the WHY. I’m also particularly interested in thoughts around the form (HOW) of the video. We talk a lot about the content of the things we bring in, but I wonder what other people in the class might say about the form of the video. How does it communicate? Why might it communicate in that specific way? What choices does it make, and why? What’s implied that might not be explicitly shown/stated? Thanks for this, Jenny!
The form of this video is very interesting as it seems to be presented by a child drawing pictures and using simple animation. It’s form expresses to me that the problem is so simple that a child can articulate it by use of simple drawings. Sometimes adults can get too wordy and too scientific when the cause and effect are very easy to understand if you clear away the “adult”.
@ previous comment that my explain the length of this post,
“child”
“adult”
Interesting Topic
1. Overcoming, deforestation, Good question. May they should replant the trees, or limit the trees they log.
2.There were wild fires in protected areas, California and Amazon, and so some forest was lost there.
Its hard to stop logging,I would not recommend it, We need logging, Countries sometimes need timber for themselves, to build houses, for work, they make furniture out of the trees, which is thousands of dollars cheaper than if they were to buy an imported furniture piece from Ashley,(ooh and Ashley they make some nice furniture) so cheap timber on a market is not bad for locals. That’s another thing like when we extract metals and iron don’t we need to cut down more forests, we make subtle tracks to create pathways for people to get food, employment and help. I believe it’s the commercial ones that take the most logs, and are big de-foresters, and thats on a global level thats Russia, China, Australia, Brazil, etc Although we recycle paper does come from trees.
maybe they should regrow forest, like farmers plant crops, but there’s a need for timber as usual, before it used to be like a handful of countries that wanted timber, now government in a way to gain money for their own country they, let loggers from different countries, log to get jobs going, but I guess some forest is still destroyed there as well .
I believe there’s less replanting, usually when concrete is poured you really don’t see many trees about, except the ones that give off miserable pollen, just kidding, I like how you phrased rapid, I would believe, it’s the industrialized countries, that need to control the rapidness and probably the people that want to export the timber.
I totally am for like food companies, like Kraft or Heinz not so much for all the other companies, burning coal and fossil fuels for heat and energy. Don’t get me wrong I like companies that makes cellphones and computers I believe these big companies should start selling more solar panels, more cheaply it’s like the ventilators, there is a great demand by some companies to buy them all, and the other little companies, probably thousands of them, struggling to go green and waiting in line.
Trees keep it fresh and cool, When I think about climate change I think about the air, i don’t oppose about how hot it is or how cold it’s not. Yeah I too am a little annoyed, that we don’t regrow the nice green and it gets worst when I see trees chopped down even around the school, but I know too if that tree would have gotten any bigger it would have cracked the sidewalks, so I wasn’t too angry for them chopping a couple of the trees down around QC, yeah my answer is grow green in some way, even for the migratory birds In the city, like that rooftop thing they did at Javits Center. And stop the miners who reminds me of the poachers hunting for animal tusks, and if I see an animal tusk selling, I probably want to buy one too.
I wasn’t surprised this year when I saw some plants were thriving through the winter, it was like where did winter go, a little bit up north. This patch of area green all year long. I believe last winter I saw the most green fields.
3. Rapid, ooh good question. what is rapid a couple of years or a decade, they’ve protected some forest in the last couple of decades, then there were forest fires, Smokey the bear couldn’t save all that forest fire.
a) How can we overcome the crisis of deforestation ?
The to stop this crisis is to make strict guidelines that restricts access and the amount of trees used by a particular company.
b) What makes deforestation so difficult to stop ?
A lot of what we use in our everyday lives involves trees to some extent for instance, paper, dressers, stairs, houses etc. Access to wood has become a essential to civilization and I don’t think we could imagine a world without it.
c) What a rapid solution can we bring ?
Making a cut off limit of how many trees can be cut down and limiting how often it is done and maybe trying to find some alternatives for the use of trees.
The to stop this crisis is to make strict guidelines that restricts access and the amount of trees used by a particular company.
A lot of what we use in our everyday lives involves trees to some extent for instance, paper, dressers, stairs, houses etc. Access to wood has become a essential to civilization and I don’t think we could imagine a world without it.
Making a cut off limit of how many trees can be cut down and limiting how often it is done and maybe trying to find some alternatives for the use of trees.
What I like about the video is that if you tell a child to draw a video like that they probably can draw all of the video, and it’ll be like it was a childs drawing, i like how even the text in the video seems hand written by a child, and the music is artistically like a childrens choir, rich sound of vocals and such.