The large deduction of forest coverage percentage will not only affect the great majority of human beings’ health and life, but also it will endanger the life of countless rare species of animals and plants. It can be really easily understood in that the forests have already been the habitats of those rare species of animals and plants and those rare species of animals and plants have no elsewhere to go if they are deprived of the forests. Or maybe it can be put in another way that the forests have already become the homes for those rare species of animals and plants and they have adjusted themselves well to living in the forests. They have all positioned themselves well in the whole biological chain and they are used to dealing with daily routines in the forests. Some of those rare species feed themselves by the plants in the forests and they may also live on each other, which have realized the state of biological balance. Unluckily, the incidence of deforestation has totally broken such balance and all the related species have been influenced in one way or another. So some rare species will die as their food has disappeared and others may die as they are not powerful enough to readjust themselves to the new situation with no habitats. Only those that can adapt themselves to the principle of “Survival of the Fittest” can live as they can quickly change themselves to accommodate the new situation. Not long later, the whole biological world will again reach a new biological balance through the gradual adjustment and adaptation of the animals and plants. Moreover, the excessive deforestation of people in recent years has led to soil erosion and unfortunately farmers can not have a good harvest under such an unfavorable soil condition (Fu, 2017). It is now a common scene that farmers have been hard-working all the time for their crops and they work from dawn to dusk to take care of their crops, hoping that they can really have a good harvest in the due time. However, the reality is that their crops do not grow well at all out of the infertile land and they feel disappointed at their own performance of not nurturing satisfactory crops. As a matter of fact, farmland would not be productive to generate a good harvest even if using the most powerful fertilizers without the help of earthworms. And the occurrence of soil erosion can not guarantee the life of those earthworms, resulting in no earthworms to ensure the nutritious farmland for the better cultivation of crops. Therefore, those farmers who make a living by those crops can not fully feed themselves, let alone supporting their own whole households. While if the case is in the opposite way, these farmers can reach a high degree of self-sufficiency for their whole households due to the achievement of good harvest and they can completely live a happy life without the concern of how to support all the family members. With the deforestation being discussed at length in the above, what comes next is that more and more land has been used for constructing buildings with the fast scientific and technological development in modern times. What is a pity to say is that human beings in recent days are all in a great desire to make high profits in every possible means and they will spare no efforts to realize their goals without taking any regard of others’ situations. Detailed speaking, when human beings find that real estate speculation can help them make a fortune from within, they are all the time trying their best to take full advantage of land so as to make high profits someday. More and more people are in such a mind, leading to the phenomenon that though there are more and more buildings well constructed, higher and high the house prices have risen. So it can be easy to perceive why more and more houses have been empty with no people to live, there are in the meantime more and more people that have no place to live. It is really gloomy for people who have no place to live to watch row upon row of tall buildings as they can not afford the high price of it. What can not be denied is that our urban landscape has actually undergone a tremendous change, but whether such change is really reassured to human beings asks for profound consideration of all people. When an increasing number of human beings are in pursuit of high profits in urban areas, more and more people rush to make money in those developed cities as well. Numerous people hope that they can change their current situation and they long for the coming of a better life soon after. So we can have a fair knowledge that the carbon dioxide emission will dramatically increase with more and more people crowding into the urban areas. As more Chinese get well off financially, many decide to purchase motor vehicles and this adds to the numbers already plying the Chinese highways. Private, corporate and government agency vehicles combine to increase the amount of carbon emission to the current alarming levels. As China expands its production capacities to meet global demands for its products, the situation can only be expected to get worse. Authorities should explore for measures aimed at reducing carbon emissions by oil driven engines by developing more fuel efficient technology in their manufacture. Use of clean energy such a solar, electricity and recently hydrogen should be encouraged to check carbon emissions. Coal as a source of industrial fuel should also be discouraged and alternative sources developed (Economy, 2017). |
