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Deforestation is a significant problem that is harming the environment. According to the United Nations, over 7 million hectares of forests were lost to deforestation in 2020. Cutting down trees disrupts oxygen sources and increases greenhouse gas emissions, as forests play a key role in carbon absorption. Deforestation also threatens biodiversity by destroying animal habitats and making species more vulnerable. While deforestation provides resources and land for human activities, it ultimately does more damage than good by disrupting ecosystems and the climate.

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Argumentative Speech

Deforestation is a significant problem that is harming the environment. According to the United Nations, over 7 million hectares of forests were lost to deforestation in 2020. Cutting down trees disrupts oxygen sources and increases greenhouse gas emissions, as forests play a key role in carbon absorption. Deforestation also threatens biodiversity by destroying animal habitats and making species more vulnerable. While deforestation provides resources and land for human activities, it ultimately does more damage than good by disrupting ecosystems and the climate.

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Do we need to stop deforestation?

Hello everyone, as you know I am Aivaras Džiaugys, your groupmate and today I am going
to talk about deforestation.
Forests are playing a huge role in our daily life. For some people trees in their surrounding
seem unimportant, acknowledging them only as the scenery and background. Nevertheless, if you
think about it, trees are everywhere in our life. Furniture, paper you write on, fruit you eat, even the
air you breathe comes from trees. We, as consumers, rely heavily on trees and forests as resources, but
forests are shrinking instead of growing, all because on deforestation. It is a significant hindrance.
According to the United Nations, in 2020 the planet lost over 7 million hectares of forests to
defortestation. Between 1990 and 2015, the world lost 129 million hectares of forest – an area about
the size of South Africa. And what do we do all this for? Benefits to companies, industrialization,
expansion for factories. People see deforestation as a beneficial action, as they are gaining resources
and clearing land for usage, however what people don‘t understand is that cutting trees affects us
more than we believe. All deforestation does damage, whether it be people or the wildlife, cutting
down forests harms more than it helps.
To begin with, the disruption and destruction of forests destabilizes oxygen sources and
greenhouse gas emissions. Forests play a crucial role in both the containment of carbon dioxide and
the purification of air through oxygen. The loss of forests makes up about six to twelve percent of
annual global carbon dioxide emissions. When forests are cut down, carbon absorption stops, and the
carbon already stored in the trees is released into the atmosphere. Deforestation also affects global
climate change and global warming. Every year, due to deforestation, an estimated amount of 1.5
billion tons of carbon dioxide is released into the air. Trees are our main source of oxygen, and by
cutting down them, we are only hurting ourselves and our future.
Furthermore, by clearing forests, we are causing the decline of wildlife. We destroy habitats
and increase the vulnerability of animals, and therefore threatening Earth‘s biodiversity. Accoring to
Greenpeace, about 80% of the world‘s documented species live in tropical rainforests, and when we
cut down these forests, we threaten the animals and harm their homes. Water cycles are disrupted as
trees can‘t evaporate groundwater, which causes the surrounding climate to become much drier. Soil
erosion is accelerated due to trees are no longer there to protect and keep soil in place. Generally
speaking, through deforestation, we are disrupting and harming wildlife, which causes an imbalance
in the environment.
So now we reached the end of my speech. Before I stop, I would like to take everyting into
consideration. In the past decades, deforestation became an important issue. Forests are considerably
important in our daily life and by cutting them down the irreversible damage is caused to both people
and wildlife.

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