Should Trees Be Cut Down?

Should Tree Be Cut Down? Think about it what would your answer be... yes or no? This was one of the things we had to do for writing in Room 6. For me it was just too hard to pick what side I was on so I did the pros and cons. Our writing had to have lots of evidence and true information in it. When the whole class had finished we had a DEBATE about whether trees should be cut down. There were some VERY assertive people who fought strongly for their point during this. In the end nobody really one but it was a great experience for all of us. Here is my persuasive writing.

Should Trees Be Cut Down?

What do you think when you hear this question? Do you disagree or agree?
Do you like how forests help the world? Could you not live without wooden
products?  I was one of those people who couldn’t decide so I have written
the pros and cons. Here are three paragraphs about the pros and cons of
cutting trees down to help decide, whether you’re on the green team or
the forest league!

One crazy fact about forests is that they help shelter and sustain over
80% of plants and animals that live on land! National Geographic says
that trees are living things just like us humans and they breathe in
carbon dioxide and breathe out fresh oxygen which is the opposite
of what we do. Trees can also cool down our homes and city by shade
but in Los Angeles the average temperatures have gone up  six degrees
in the last fifty years because there has been less trees and more
roads and buildings that absorb heat. Did you know that inside the
tree there are few, or lots of rings that actually tell us things about
history? That is the way to tell the age of a tree and the history of
the weather where the tree is grown. Which is pretty useful! So why
do we cut them down?

Have you ever wondered what life would be like without a warm fire,
chocolate and toilet paper? That is what could be lost if we stop
cutting trees down! Not to mention all the essentials like, tables,
chairs, paper and electricity. 13.2 million people who work for the
lumber industry would lose their jobs because they wouldn’t be
allowed to cut down trees and make them into products. Did you
know that 1.6 million people rely on forests for their living, as well?
What would we use for houses, furniture and fences? Some of you
might say why not metal or steel, but did you know that those two
materials are both more costly. Professionals who build houses also
don’t always have the same experience working with metal or steel.

Did you know that cutting down trees can be a win, win for human life
and the forests? If we cut down a few trees in the middle of the
forest it will reduce the competition of trees trying to get light and
water so the remaining trees can grow big and healthy. Humans also
get a bargain as well! We get the trees that were cut down and make
essentials for our living!

According to an anonymous source on AskIdeas “ Humans are the only
creature in this world who cut the trees, make paper from it and then
write Save The Trees on it.” 

What do you want the world to look like in the next century?