The United States government should step in to severely limit the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest.The rainforest, which stretches 2.1 million miles from Brazil to Columbia, loses on average 36 football fields of trees per minute. "Seventy percent of the world’s plants and animals live in forests and are losing their habitats to deforestation."(National Geographic) Why care for the forest? "Standing forest has no monetary value"-Joel Velasco. Simply put: Standing trees are important to the water cycle.They absorb rain fall and produce water vapor that is released into the atmosphere.They clean the air around them. They provide medicine and food. They provide beauty. They combat climate change."Only when the last tree has been cut down will people realize that they cannot eat money,"
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