Significance

Why should this problem be dealt with?

 

Why do we have to relinquish convenient paper towels? Why should you oblige us to do so? The answer is very simple: The Earth will be or has already been at stake. We, human beings, have endangered the environment of the Earth in many ways such as pollution (air, land and ocean) . The worst of them all is deforestation for it causes other serious problems. Paper towels are products of devastation on the Earth by human beings.

Damage to the environment:

-Nearly 80% of the world's original and old growth forests have been logged or severely degraded already and in the US we have lost 95% of our old growth forests.

-40% of the world's industrial logging goes into making paper.

-Old growth forests make up 16% of the virgin tree fiber used each year to make paper products.

What happens / will happen as a result:

 

-the warming of the atmosphere

As you know, trees absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. The less the Earth has trees, the more its temperature rises. It is predicted that the global temperature increases 0.3 degree Celsius per decade over the next century, disrupting normal weather patterns and creating hotter and drier weather. This causes increasing drought and desertification, crop failures, melting of the polar ice caps, coastal flooding, and displacement of major vegetation regimes (Forestethics).

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