Essays on Deforestation

The earth is in a way alive, it breathes and over time has formed a habitat for us human to thrive in. In the Film Dirt “The Movie” the outermost layer of the earth, the crust, is explored providing various messages as to why the...

Imagine looking around the forest, seeing thousands upon thousands of trees over the horizon. Hearing the parrots sing in harmony. Smelling the flower right next to you. Just imagine. Isn’t that great? But that is nearly impossible right now due to deforestation. Deforestation is an...

Deforestation is slowly destroying our world, God gave us the job to protect and take care of the things he made. Environmental Stewardship is the idea that we are entrusted with care and protection of our planet. But, because of the terrible things we do,...

The development narrative in the documentary, Second Nature (1996), can be seen as story with a beginning, middle and end as defined by Roe (1994). Narratives frame the dynamics of a system and then discuss how they evolve to produce a set of outcomes (Leach,...

With the introduction of settlers to New England in the 1600’s, deforestation occurred at a rapid pace. This was major product of the agricultural growth of farms and lumber production. Vermont and Massachusetts were major areas for lumbering due to their location near bodies of...

The Amazon Rainforest is a large, tropical region that extends across eight countries. These countries are Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and overseas French territory of Guiana. According to Alina Bradford, in her online article about deforestation, the rainforest is over 1.4...

In parts of the world usually located between latitudes 28 degrees north and south of the equator, averaging 17 degrees Celsius year round, and boasting a large amount of biodiversity and frequent precipitation, lay tropical rainforests. At one point, tropical rainforests covered 14 percent of...