The forests are the lungs of our planet. They spread across three thirds of the Earth's surface. Without these green oasis, human existance would most certainly be questionable. Unfortunately, wooded areas decrease by the year, some by the fires, but also by degradation and illegal cutting. Although the rapidness of the degradation is somewhat slowed down compared with the data from the nineties: from 16 million it dropped to 13 million hectares a year; but still, the forests are losing their battle with human negligence and natural disasters.
Do you want to live in a world where the endless wooded spaces could only be seen in pictures? Do you wish to live where the number od lung deseased and people suffering from respiratory system failure, as well as the level of death cases caused by these problems have drastically increased? It is not an unrealistic scenario. Even more so, that scenario can be written by the same nature we're destructing and it could be envied by the best of Hollywood's apocaliptic film directors.
Of course, there's good news relating to this story and it is the fact that there is a solution to this problem. A solution lies in the people. In you, in me, in everyone individually. „It's easy for one person to type about this from his chair“, you'd say, „one person couldn't make a change“, but this poor attitude is untrue.
Every human being during his life should plant at least one tree. The more, the merrier. It's more than an individual right, it is a responsability given to us by birth, a responsability towards a planet we inhabit and which has given us life. Certainly you have some room for a tree in your backyard (if you live in a house). Besides doing a good deed for yourself, and making the yard look replenished, you will enrich the planet and help the people you love live a long and healthier life. It can also be very useful to engage an action of afforestation in your neighbourhood, but you could even be an iniciator. Inspire others (blog these interests on the internet, or talk about them publicly, use your imagination) to do the same – to reforest a bare lot, or at least plant a sprout in their own backyard.
Considering all this, there is a very noble, devoted and humane action in extinguishing and preventing fires of further devastating woods. The fires literally eat great forested spaces during the summer months, when the temperatures rise above average, but the cause are also human nonchalance and even malevolence. After those kinds of devastations, the forests need decades to regrow themselves and that's a human lifetime.
The forests need our care.They are our own guarantee of a long life, protection from deseases and a beautiful way to use the free time to regain lost energy, lowered by the ever increasing stress of our busy lives. They are the lungs and great decoration of this planet. We need them!
How many trees have you planted?
