“In the time you can read this sentence, eight acres of tropical rain forest will have been bulldozed and burned out of existence” (Bloyd 49). However, this destruction has been neglected and overlooked for years. Many people do not understand the long-term consequences of losing the earth’s rain forests. The rain forests have provided people with many natural resources and medicines. The benefits that rain forests provide to people will be destroyed if the depletion …showed first 75 words of 3016 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3016 total…most humans know nothing about are disappearing faster than ever. The destruction is unnecessary and causes more harm than anything else. The benefits of destruction will not last forever and future generations will have no other places to turn to for valuable resources and medicines. After all the rain forest “is a library for life sciences, the world’s greatest pharmaceutical laboratory, and a flywheel of climate. It’s a matter of global destiny” (Carr 7).