English Literature

Life is a notion that is generally related to human beings or animals but most people, forget that everything else in our environment has a life of its own. They take advantage of whatever uses they provide and without thinking twice they use them for their own benefit. The life of a tree is essential in a way that throughout their lifetime they generate more good in the world than we can ever imagine. Every single day, these living forms are being exterminated for the utilization of their nutrients in hope of maybe saving the life of a human being. The prevails of humans in these circumstances may seem to be correct for the short term but in the long run, the trees being extinct may not be the only ones. The question whether the environment is the one supposed to prevail or whether it is people who should prevail as far as this is concerned proves to be hard-hitting on the grounds that both depend on each other to some extent. Logically if we are to fathom the concept in this whole issue and get into details, then the nature is quite imperative and no human justification can beat that.

If we were to take a perspective criterion on why people imperil the life of an innocent tree, then we would be at a rout on the grounds of ignorance as reasons behind it are completely egocentric. Questions like the impact of shortages of trees as far as global warming is concerned should take the center stage. The other query is incase trees are being cut for medical purposes, is there a clear assurance that the human life will be saved in the process With all the effective technology that is there to cure diseases, why annihilate the trees Trees and basically forests should be given credit for their impact on global ecosystems. According to Jocelyn, Rainforests give a place that can be called home to 50- 90 of all organisms. Human life also do benefit from what this trees do offer as far as food is concerned. Trees do perk up the eminence of air that species breathe as they trap carbon and particles produced by pollution. They decide on rainfall and replenish the ambiance. They generally regulate and cool the earths climate. Trees prevent soil erosion and make the most infertile soil rich with life.

What happens if this tree is cut Obviously it endangers the life of the ecosystem, soil erosion will be experienced and the air will have been tampered with and people will definitely die because of suffocation. On the other hand, the reason this topic is contentious is because as much as most of the time when we think about deforestation we reflect about it in a negative concept, we only think about depletion of natural resources, global warming and the normal extinction of fauna and flora, we hardly stop to think what cutting of trees would bring unto us. One of the benefits of cutting trees is based on economic remuneration. We simply can not live without lumber that is used to make tables, houses or paper. Wood is basically one of the basic natural resources. Many jobs also revolve around wood and if it was not cut then some people would be jobless. The main issue is to plant more trees after cutting.

There is a so-so chance that if the tree is cut for medical purposes then definitely the person will be completely cured. The probability that the person will get cured is half. On this notion is there a good reason to cut the tree for a scenario that is not definite To some point it is completely unfounded to end the life of a tree that can be used for other gains for own egotistic grounds. Human beings should seek synthetically related treatment from a medical health practitioner. On the other hand, what will happen to people who can not meet the costs of the hospital or to buy drugs What about people who are hindered by culture, religion and traditions from going to hospital or better still to take any synthetic drug.

Some situations like this are completely catastrophic if you come to think about it. Under this circumstance both the environment and the human beings prevail to some extent. Very rarely does such a scenario that is two sided give enough satisfaction. The main issue is for everybody to know the importance of trees and to get people who can clearly convince them that the other side is equally bright. Whether beliefs contradict reality and fiction, there is always a better side to both issues.
Today there is enough technology for remedial treatment to be produced synthetically without exterminating the trees.  According to Leslie, there are more than one hundred and twenty divergent chemicals derived from trees and more so plants. They are considered as imperative drugs and used globally. Several of the drugs that are sold today are simply some plain synthetic adaptation of naturally obtained substances. Examples of synthetically produced drugs are Ipecac from a topical plant called Cephaelis ipecacuanha. The drug is used to induce vomiting. Another example is Paclitaxel from a plant tree called Taxol and is used to cure cancer. Berberine is a drug used to cure dysentery and is produced from a tree plant called Berberis vulgaris. The other example of a drug produced from plants is Gossypol which is a male contraceptive and originates from Gossypium species. With all this synthetically produced drugs there is no enough justification to exterminate trees and plants that can be utilized in other ways.

The main quandary in all this is that most people are plainly ignorant. They do not focus about tomorrow, they only think about that specific time. People are easy to manipulate and goes with what works for them without caring about others. They cut trees to get medicines from them even when situations favor them to go and seek assistance elsewhere. For those who have no choice, they are too ill- bred to think of replacing the tree they have cut. The world is occupied with too many people of whom most of them are irrational and self centered. They destroy beautiful nature to get some few coins or to ape what everybody else is doing without reasoning on the impact. They have no second thought on what they do and are too careless to be stewards to nature. People need to apprehend that climate change is a despicable predicament resulting from shortage of woodlands and can therefore fix the problem by re-planting forests that we killed. The main defy is to put more concentration on environment and basically nature for as one Mathai said, if we destroy the environment it will come back to destroy us. From this squabble I assert that both human beings and environment prevails and the challenge is for people to give logic a chance.