How Amazon rainforest benefits the world?

Answer 1

There are very few advantages to developing the Amazon rainforest, and most of them will soon disappear.

Land occupied by rainforests is seldom suitable for any kind of intensive farming since the soil isnit sufficiently rich to support the growing of crops. Even used as grazing land the nutrients in the soil are used up quite quickly so that more forest must then be destroyed to create new grazing land.

The advantages of developing the rainforest are that it the timber can be exported to rich countries for use in the manufacture of furniture, etc., and grazing land can be used to raise cattle to provide meat.

But this isn't an unlimited process. Once a tree is gone, it's gone, and again this "advantage" can only be sustained if more and more trees are cut down.

Unless the process is halted and reversed it is quite possible that much of the land around the Amazon river and it's tributaries will become a desert.

But does this only affect the area around the Amazon? Unfortunately not.

Trees "breathe in" carbon dioxide (which we breathe out), and "breathe out" oxygen (which we breathe in). The Amazon rainforest was therefore the largest resource of naturally-produced oxygen, In the world.

Of equal importance is the "green house effect". This refers to the fact that a steadily growing layer of carbin dioxide in the atmosphere stops the natural release of heat out into space. Instead it is trapped and recirculated, slowly but steadily raising the temperature at the Earth's surface.

An important cause of the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the fact that less and less of it is being converted back into oxygen - by plant resources such as the Amazon rainforest.

Added to that, beef cattle produce substantial amounts of methane - another gas that helps to create the green house effect. So the destruction of the rainforest to proved land for raising beef is a doubly dangerous attack on the Earth's capability to support life.

The more the Amazon and other rainforests are chopped down, the faster the green house effect intensifies and the closer the time when life forms on Earth, such as you and me, will no longer be able to survive.

How long will it take? Who knows, we've never faced a situation like this before.

Can the situation be reversed? Again, who knows. But we can at least be sure that things will only get worse as long as we don't do anything about it.

Answer 2

The amazon rain forest benefits the world in so many ways its unbelievable. first of all about 20% of our oxygen comes from the amazon alone and almost 30% of our fresh water comes from the amazon basin. Not to mention the fact that the rain forests are also home to most of the species of animals in the world. you could probably find more species of fish in the amazon river than in the Atlantic Ocean and that place is pretty big. Our rain forests have got many names like 'lungs of the earth' and 'carbon sinks' but there certainly is much of them left anymore and so we are losing a load of medicinal plants and rare and wonderful animals.