The Tragedy Of Deforestation | Climate Change: The Facts | BBC Earth

Forests are our way out, as they help absorb the atmosphere's carbon dioxide - and we're killing them.

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[gim]

Government are ignoring this issue like i ignore ads and sponsors in the video

[oliverschmidt]

the picture with the Orangutan says everything ....

[LesleytheBirdNerd]

Well, that was the most depressing thing I've watched in a while. Something really does have to be done, we humans as a whole can't seem to see past the end of our nose.

[raptorx]

I live in Sweden and deforestation is a thing I see daily and something I have gotten used to. I can only remember one single bit of forest that have not been cut down since I was 10 years old. Just some kilometers away, maybe 4, alot of trees are being cut down to build houses, or just nothing and to just gain money. This leads to all the deers for example, comes down here to the fields, destroys the field and our garden because they have nowhere else to go. It really hurts me and I worry about climate change each day.
I really don't want to just watch it all happen, but what am I, a 14 year old, gonna do in a world where people just listen to "adults", those who did not listen when told that climate change was real, those who are making me grow up on a burning planet, dying species, rising sea levels and soon incredibly many immigrants who've lost their homes.
We're taught about it in school, but it feels like no one else actually understands the seriousness. If this don't go well, which is very much possible, each summer will come with immense heat, and therefore huge wildfires and dangerous smoke.
It feels like everything is hopeless about it sometimes, because even when I tell people about how worried I am and telling them what could happen, most just shrugs it off and says "They're probably gonna find some machine that will fix everything.", but to be honest, we already got those machines, but they cost too much and we can pretty "easily" life a more simple life that won't affect nature that much. The world kind of just care about money, until it finally sees that it needs to do something, though it's already too late when it does.
So I beg whoever is reading this, spread the awareness, try to make people see that it's already happening and that it will get much worse if we don't do something. We would get a planet with seas full of poison, air full of smoke, populations with extreme hunger, weather that is constant hell and people running away from their home. It might seem hopeless, but it ain't yet. Just try to make people hear and educate them, so they know that they need to live a bit more different lives and how.
If you don't want to do this, think of the coming generations, maybe younger siblings or cousins, you maybe even got kids, do it for them.









(Now excuse me if the text's grammar isn't great, just wrote this in a hurry and didn't have time to look if I've spelled something wrong. Have a good day, and thank you)

[findingian]

I recently planted 700 trees but I felt I have achieved nothing😭💔❤️But now I am planning to plant 1Million trees by April 2022

[NikocadoAvocado]

Palm oil is 2nd. Let's talk about the 1st reason.... *Top reason for deforestation: Animal agriculture.* Growing food to feed animals. Especially in places like Brazil, who's payed off by Canada, UK, and USA, to create massive grain, corn, soy felids to feed Cattle. We don't need to all be vegans, but we also don't need to consume this much meat in a system that taxes rainforest acreage. That's one of the reasons lab grown meat and plant based meat (you see Beyond Meat more and more now) is on the rise.

[eeziwestfeels]

The narrator saying forests are like 'the lungs of the planet' is essentially a brilliant wrap of the whole documentary

[alexfischer]

3:02 the monkey attacking the machine was sad to see..

[manankagarwal]

I become tensed about future after seeing this 🙁

[conred]

"When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realise that you cannot eat money."

[johnpierce]

Some key information is left out about deforestation: that those soy farms largely go to feed the cattle, pigs and other animals that become meat for rich-world countries (who set the lifestyle aspirations for much of the rest of the world). That most processed foods are less nutritious and tie into diet-related health epidemics in America.

Solutions : eat food made closer to home, eat lower down the food chain, and demand products grown without conflict palm oil.

[aestheticvibezz]

We Should Learn From Bhutan It's The Only Carbon Negative Country. They Treat The Environment Like God And That's Why They Care And Protect The Nature And One Of The Happiest Country In The World 🌏🌝

[sakshidwivedi]

The thing is that everyone on this planet knows what should be done but no one is doing it...and I m sorry to say that the day is not far enough when we have to say goodbyes 😭

[swampy]

I remember giving a school talk about deforestation in 1988! I never would have dreamed it would have got worse but there you go!

[TigerTigz.]

There hasn't been any rain in the Masai Mara game Park in Kenya for almost a year. Climate change.

[davehendricks]

Everybody talks about CO2 levels going up. No one is talking about dropping oxygen levels when all these trees disappear!

[SleepyMatt-zzz]

I'm always reminded of deforestation. Lumber and fish are our only export where I live, so everytime I go out I think "oh, I don't remember that missing chunk of the mountain". The government won't do anything about it because we must "protect union jobs".

It's really depressing.

[kuitaranheatmorus]

It's always good to learn about why deforestation is so bad, and how we can solve to minimize it.

[lakshmikrishnan]

It's very sad 😢 to see how we humans causing damage to the mother Earth 🌍.

[johnkammer]

When the deforested countries have droughts, will they be able understand why. Habitat destruction leads to species extinction then the end of humanity is imminent.