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Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area. But they were estimated completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. Trees play a critical role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. Fewer forests means larger amounts of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere and increased speed and severity of global warming.

Forests are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to profits or other uses. The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut down forests to provide more room for planting crops. Often many small farmers will each clear a few acres to feed their families by cutting down trees and burning them in a process known as “slash and burn” agriculture.

The world's growing population has been a primary cause of rain forest destruction. More people need land to live on and wood products to consume. Limiting population growth may be the first in a series of steps that would limit the destruction of the rain forests.

We must realize is that the paper products we use daily could have been a part of a forest. By wasting paper products, we are wasting forests. The only way to ensure that we will not encounter any of the consequences of deforestation is to stop destroying the forests all together. We should stop cutting down all trees, no matter what our needs were.