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These days, the most controversial problem relates to forests. Forests supply a lot of useful benefits to human beings, for instance, trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen for people to breathe. Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet (WWF, n.d.). Nobody can reject various advantages from forests. Some people also say that forests are a “green lung” for our planet. According to Food and Agriculture Organization, there are approximately half of the world’s tropical forests which have been destroyed (Szalay, 2013). Forests are lost each and every year. However, some people rely on several benefits of forests to be mercenary. They cut down trees and destroy millions of surfaces to build houses, industrial estates or to serve for human life. That is why, the areas of forests all over the Earth are decreasing dramatically. People have not known that their life is being threatened by destroying forests. Consequently, governments of countries around the world should enact a law about deforestation to protect forests all over the world.
First of all, deforestation is a big issue all over the world. People clear forests for many reasons. According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the direct cause of the removal of all trees from a large area is agriculture (Damino, 2012). In the past, our ancestor burnt forests in which are around their habitat, took plan to grow crops, such as rice, corn, they also built farmsteads which need a lot of areas to construct. What is more, they cut down trees to take timbers to heat their family in the winters, also made furniture, for example beds, wardrobes, so on and so forth. Furthermore, one of the reasons is that deforestation belongs to the conscie...

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