Without plants there would be no humanity

THE EDITOR: The loss of forest trees can greatly affect rainfall, plant life, animal life, and also human life.

The loss of oxygen would be vastly exacerbated by the loss of trees. Our atmosphere has a tremendous percentage of oxygen in it which allows us to breathe. That oxygen is created by plants breathing in carbon dioxide, and breathing out oxygen. Without plants there would be no oxygen, and therefore there would be no humanity. Trees are the planets largest oxygen producers, and these huge plants pump out oxygen at a giant rate, but if about one third of those trees were gone a third of the planet’s oxygen-creating ability would be gone. Part of our atmosphere is what is referred to as the “Ozone layer” which is simply made up of three atoms of oxygen clinging to each other, which provides a tremendous screen against the ultra-violet rays thrown off by the sun that would otherwise kill all human life on the planet.

Ozone is created by oxygen in the atmosphere reacting to light from the sun. If the oxygen in the atmosphere is not being regenerated by trees, the ozone layer would quickly disintegrate and it wouldn’t come back and without the ozone layer humans would become susceptible to the tremendous rays of the sun, bringing more cases of skin cancer, and other related diseases. That devastation will be a by-product (or collateral damage) because of the destruction of the ozone layer. From this point forward the destruction of the earth will be all but irreversible. Grass would likely recover quickly, but trees however would take decades to grow, which the earth would not have. The earth is God’s own and the fullness thereof, of which we all are, and everything therein, so please do not let greed and indiscretion of mankind destroy this beautiful planet earth on which we live or else the Judgement of God will come upon us swiftly without remedy. Lack of water, famine, incurable diseases and lots of other disasters too numerous to mention.

FLORENCE DYER
Princes Town