DEFORESTATION: ANALYZING GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS

Abstract

Humans alone are not custodians of Earth, but their activities are responsible for destroying its balance and making the living conditions of other creatures and themselves difficult. These human activities include spreading trends of urbanization, driven by population growth, increasing demands for wood as fuel and timber, agricultural expansion, industrial growth, and various other factors, which act as major agents of deforestation across the globe. From one perspective, all these factors hold both economic and social significance, but from an environmental viewpoint, they are pushing the planet toward destruction. The shrinking forest cover has a devastating impact on the climate. Earth's temperature is rising, the ozone layer is depleting, and these changes have serious consequences for biodiversity.