Task 7

As most people know Global Warming is one of the issues that we faced these days .However many factors are helping to raise the Global Warming. One of these factors I discover while I was searching for appropriate topic for may task 7 in 174 and this factor is forest fires. Sciences said that one third of the carbon dioxide is coming from burning forest (Jacobson). And also Data gathered by aircraft flying over northern Alaska and the Arctic Ocean in April 2008 hint that much of the haze that blankets the region in spring, long thought to be associated with industrial emissions, in fact results from forest fires and agricultural burning in Asia (Perkins). In this essay is I will talk about the reasons, effects of forests fires in the country which produce it and some solutions of the problem.

There are many reasons why people start to burn forest. The first reason is that some countries are depending on tourism. For example if city like Dubai had a forest and they need space, it is easy to them to burn it than cut trees one by one because they need space to build a mall for example. The Second reason is that burning forest help to make the soil better for building buildings. For example burning destroys the dead leaves and rotting wood (http://islands.unep.ch/), so there is no need to worries if the are some woods or roots that could cancel the project you want to build.

There are many effects of forest fires. The first effect is the impact on the economy of the country that burns the forest. For example if a country burns a forest and that forest was near an airport they must shut the airport because the pilot can’t land the plane if there are some smokes from the forest, so they well lose money for at least three days. Another effect is on health. In the Physiological impacts caused by the smoke from forest fires include heart and lung conditions, carcinogenesis, premature death, suppressed immunity, and physical and cognitive impairments (www.forestencyclopedia.net).

Although there are reasons and effects there are also solutions. The first solution is to put a specific laws that to band the burn forest if not necessary. For example countries like Tasmanian are burning forest to make a space so they can build new houses, so this is a necessary reason to burn forests. Another solution is to brings together local knowledge, policy perspectives and science to help tropical forest margin stakeholders understand the tradeoffs between conservation and development goals (www.worldagroforestry.org).


In conclusion, we must dig harder and harder in the forest burning issue before the situation get worse and I hope that some day we would not have to burn any forest because the forest is like a protection for us from the pollution that we faced.

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Perkins, Sid. "Arctic haze: From Russia." Science News 14 Mar. 2009: 13.

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