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Persuasive Essay On Deforestation

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With every passing second, the impending doom of our planet becomes ever more prominent. Deforestation is causing an increase in both extinction rate and the rate of climate change. Even the animals that we eat are contributing to climate change. Carbon dioxide is continuously plummeting into the atmosphere, causing temperatures to rise and oceans to die. What are we as individuals actually doing to help the situation at hand? Nothing.
We have been living in a constant cycle of hypocrisy. We tweet, share, comment, and like everything that we can that has to do with saving the planet; however, after one gets done using the unnecessary electricity to power their smartphone, do solar panels charge their phone? Does everyone purposefully take short showers? Are all citizens buying locally sourced fruits and vegetables? Are there compost stations in all households? Has our government put taxes on non-reusable plastics and Styrofoam? There is an endless list of things that we can do to help the environment; however, most people are disregarding those things. Some people are ignorant to man made environmental factors, like climate change, which is leading to the destruction of our natural resources. The recently captured image of a woman on a beach exposes the growing ignorance of our society to our dying natural environment. To begin to understand the image, one must first take a look at what was captioned. The caption is as follows, “A woman poses for a

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