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The Rainforest
i learned in school that 47 major drugs come from te rainforest, and keeping it would be a good idea so that we can have more drug possibilities. This got me thinking: companies cut down tree's of the rainforest for timber, but is the rainforest more valuable as timber or as it is? whats your opinion? :)
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It's more valuable as is, in my opinion. There are several reasons for this.
First off, we are a food web. Cut down trees, you cut down animals homes. Animals die. Insect populations overgrow. This is bad. Now those who live around the rain forest die from starvation or from diseases caused by the insects.
On this planet, we have an oxygen cycle. Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. Plants take in carbon dioxide and use it in photosynthesis. Oxygen is a by-product of photosynthesis which is released into the air. The cycle then repeats itself. Without trees, we'd have very little oxygen. Yes, there are other trees in the world, but what would happen once all the rain forest is cut down? What will we cut down next?
As you stated before, many drugs are created from trees in the rain forest. So let me ask, what is more important? A table made from exotic wood or a life saving drug? I think most people would agree the drug is. Therefore, we should save the rain forest for drugs.
I think we all remember Dr. Seuss. I don't know about you, but I notably remember The Lorax. In this short story, we were taught trees were valuable. This lesson still has not changed.
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I believe it is more valuable as it is because of the thousand of animals and insects that live there. plus when can contract medicines for newly found illness from those trees, plants and ect. I also believe that if they want to cut down the trees they can cut them down somewhere else cause it really is doing a number on what is in there and what we can have and learn from it.
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