Trees are very important to man in
three very important ways:
- 1- They provide him with wood and other products;
- 2- They give him shade;
- 3- And they help to prevent and floods.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the
world, man has not realized that third of these services is the most important.
In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in
large numbers, only to find that with them he has lost the best friends he had.
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Two thousand years ago rich and powerful country cut down its trees to
build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became hard and
poor. When the empire fell to piece, the home country found itself faced by
floods and starvation.
Even where a government realizes the
importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade
the villagers to see this. The villager’s
wants wood to cook his food with; and he can earn money by making charcoal or
selling wood to the townsman. He is usually too lazy or too careless to
plant and look after new trees. So, unless the government has a good system of
control, or can educate the people, the forests slowly disappear.
This
does not only mean that villager’s sons and grandsons have fewer trees. The results
are even more serious; for where there are trees their roots break the soil up
allowing the rain to sin in_and also behind the soil, thus preventing its being
washed away easily but where there are
no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, causing
floods and carrying away with it the rich top-soil, in which crops grow so
well. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.
TOPIC WRITTEN BY L.A.HILL AND R.D.S. FIELDEN
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