Save trees! Save the planet!
Their uses and importance in maintaining a
healthy life balance. Trees are an important part
of society and community. Along with furnishing
us with the basic essentials for life like food,
oxygen, shelter, medicine, tools, they also satisfy the needs created by our modern ways of living.
The value of trees has been increasing ever since
more and more benefits are being discovered.
Trees provide us shade and shelter, help in
moderating the climate, preserving soil,
supporting wildlife, reducing pollution and in many other ways . Trees create an aesthetically
pleasing atmosphere around us. They make our
landscape look beautiful..indeed priceless.
However , the population explosion and
expansion of commercial areas has resulted in
massive pruning of trees. People are continuously cutting trees for developmental activities like
making houses, commercial buildings, parking
lots and we are moving a step further in
destroying the planet by loosing the most
valuable resource of the environment. Have we
ever thought what would happen if there were no trees on Earth? Global warming will increase
leading to melting of glaciers and a rise in sea
level. This will disturb the entire chain of life on
earth. The water cycle will get disturbed, many
species of animals will loose their habitats and
we will in turn loose the huge bio-diversity that we are now proud of. What would we provide
to the generations yet unborn with, if there were
no parks, playgrounds and backyards? How will
they feel connected to Nature and Mother Earth?
Trees are the lungs through which we breathe.
Where would oxygen come for mankind to breathe? Are we sure that we can settle with
more buildings, more commercial houses, more
paved streets and less of trees? It is time to re-
think the action of cutting down trees for
development of a nation. It is difficult or rather
impossible to sustain life on Earth without trees and it is not possible to find alternatives to trees.
It is also our responsibility to pass on to the
future generations, the benefits we were
provided with, by nature. It is time to save the
trees. Our small efforts can save the environment.
All it needs is a start!

I SO.....incredibly like this!!!!

Someone is on the right track!

Save us all as humans..from those that lead us into the hell they can't face!!!!..that would be a mirror to a politician.. lol..

The environment will survive us all...I'll never be convinced that a force that can wipe out an entire population with a tremor, a strong wind, or flood will succumb to a plastic bag and disposable diapers

cynicism is lazy

Nice copy/paste.

As long as the human population is permitted to breed unchecked any attempts to 'fix' the environment are token at best.

Oh, the planet will survive. The planet doesn't need oxygen, doesn't need the current temperatures, or us walking on its surface for that matter.
The planet doesn't need the rain forests, clear oceans and water.
The planet can exist whether it's as hot as Venus or as cold as Mars.

But... WE can't!

So if we want to survive, we have to treat our planet with respect, learn to be as environmentally friendly as we can be.

I do think America has a big part to play in all this. Don't know about the here and now, but America has always been known for not being particularly being environmentally friendly. Considering the size of the country, it would help the entire planet if it would be. I do understand things are changing, but again, don't know how far.
But more importantly, the top of organisations like Monsanto, Big Pharma, Codex Alimentarius etc., are all in the States. Ironically all of these are derived from Nazi Germany :/ The Nazis still rule - and ruin - the world.
All these big corporations need to be stopped for the planet as we know it, and thus the human race, to survive.

Monsanto isn't allowed in the EU, and I heard not in Russia either. But it will only take so long before we are forced to. Talk about the downfall of nature.
Pretty soon we all be genetically manipulated from eating GM food. And I don't think there's coming back from that ... Almost the same scenario of Atlantis, they were messing around with these things too, thinking they were gods. And the reason it got wiped out.

But the planet will survive... we won't. Unless we do something.

First we have to save ourselves from killing each other, because at the current rate we are going and the pace there may not be many around to worry about the planet in the future.

I tried to bring up these points in a previous thread about how great humans are.I didn't use corporations as Crystal has done;didn't think i needed to as they are run by humans ! But unfortunately,blind and tunnel vision by certain others who have no thoughts for the future of the planet and their own offspring,made me shake my head and leave the thread.
It's a shame,but we are in a self-destruct mode while selfishness and ignorance are happily absorbed by so many for the sake of today only...

I agree.

Maintaining 'balance' in our ecosystems.

I agree TOTALLY with the original post (regardless if it's a copy-paste or not).. I live in a rural area where trees are plentiful, yet I feel we need more to offset their destruction caused by development in the urban areas.. plus our community is enforcing more recycling and a better respect for our landscape, of which I totally support.. also, 7 neighboring communities have banded together and fought against the wind turbine industry coming in to take over our agricultural lands and WON against corporate greed that had total disregard for our well being/way of life.. I myself am planting 30-50 new trees on my property this year..

what many people don't seem to realize is that we live in a dome.. our ozone layer IS that dome that surrounds us all.. and with China (mostly) pumping their crap into the air...(if you don't know about it.. just read this http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat10/sub66/item392.html it's causing a LOT of ill effects to the world.. the wind blows that garbage EVERYwhere, spreading it haphazardly.. yet many aren't aware of the effects it has globally.. yes.. we can blame other countries, like the USA, for their corporate greed and seemingly total disregard for the environment as a whole.. but if we don't act in unison to eradicate these problems.. nothing will ever come of it and we'll all die off long before the planet does (as noted by Crystal)...

Thanks dear we all have to stand for this.

Save paper!
Use animals for targets.

Nice thread, I've found my people. I feel like it's important that more people have direct experiences of nature, nature can heal human beings. Society can change only when enough individuals have changed. It's all about individual experience. But I think everything unfolds as it should, the message is spreading.

Absolutemently. We all need to stop breathing because CO2 causes globull worming. And what we exhale is CO2 which according to all the so called climate change experts is the cause of globull worming. Yes, CO2 is what these experts call carbon. I hope they all stop breathing. And Al Bore should really stop flying around in his private jet and sell one of his many estates. But he buys and sells carbon credits through his own trading company. Hypocrite much?

Oh and yes, lets decrease the world population by increasing the number of abortions in the world. No problem killing innocents in the womb to keep the number of humans down on this planet.

And no I don't think the USA is a irresponsible about the environment. I'd say look to China which builds a coal plant a week which has no pollution controls on the coal power plants. That's why large cities in China are a haze of pollution. But then China is excused from all pollution controls by the supposed great minds of the Useless Nations (UN). It's all a farce.

Well the original post was about not cutting down so many trees, or perhaps planting them. The simple fact is, it doesn't matter one bit if al gore or anyone else lied, as in the amazon for example, the lungs of the planet are being slashed and burned for cattle pasture. And this is happening everywhere in the tropics.
The fact is, humans are pumping exponentially more carbon and other pollutants into the air (esp. China) each decade, meanwhile we destroy the woody forests which is our only hope of controlling levels of these gases. Trees breathe carbon and exhale oxygen, it's a perfect symbiosis with us humans, there's a balancing act there.

Yes and its not about nations or countries its about each person on the planet that we call earth. Every one has to take his part of saving Living things.

I believe if the all the people of the world joined together we could do both and much more all at the same time.

Although, I do have to agree with a sentiment already stated here. I think George Carlin said it best.

"The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!"

oxygen is created in plants and used up by animals. But the oxygen cycle is not actually quite that simple. Plants must break carbohydrates down into energy just as animals do. During the day, plants hold onto a bit of the oxygen which they produced in photosynthesis and use that oxygen to break down carbohydrates. But in order to maintain their metabolism and continue respiration at night, the plants must absorb oxygen from the air and give off carbon dioxide just as animals do. Even though plants produce approximately ten times as much oxygen during the day as they consume at night, the night-time consumption of oxygen by plants can create low oxygen conditions in some water habitats.

http://water.me.vccs.edu/concepts/oxycycle.html

This is true, but perhaps goes over many peoples heads. I find that most people intuitively grasp the simple idea that animals and plants share a symbiosis, therefore humans should value plant life.