Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Ways In Which Trees Help Us

They provide oxygen to us. the way they do that is "Through photosynthesis, plants use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which all living things use for energy. Oxygen is a biproduct of this chemical process." "As for how many trees are cut down each year, the 2005 report concludes that primary forest area (as opposed to plantations)was reduced globally by 60,000 square kilometers per year (about the size of Ireland; Note that this data is incomplete due to a lack of available data from many countries who do not monitor such change. As to the “number of trees” this represents. it’s impossible to get an accurate count. Tree density in primary forests varies from 50,000-100,000 trees per square km, so the math would put this number at 3 billion to 6 billion trees per year." (thanks to a vary smart man fo that info) they may not know how many that really was but the numbers they're estimating are huge! this just needs to stop. we have to find a way to save our planets resources. there has to be a better way.

Our best friends

you know about a year ago if you would have started talking about tree huggers I would have porbably walked away but now that I see how much we need them I will stand and talk with you about them all day long. I'll even talk you're ear off. I didn't know what they did for us. I didn't know they take the carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into oxygen. like ian somerhalder said "they are our best friends." so yeah. why wouldn't we want them everywhere? it's pretty crazy. for being the smartest living things on earth, we're pretty stupid.