The year is 2030 and there are no more trees in the world. You found out yesterday that the lumber company cut down the last living tree. Now there are no more trees in the world, and it is affecting our lives. We see the affects of global warming and lack of oxygen. You think to yourself, in a few years we will have to have oxygen tanks because we have no trees to give out oxygen. Is this what our lives will be like? Will we have to be confined to our houses because outside we will not be able to breathe? What will happen to us if we keep chopping down these trees? Will we have to live with our mistakes because once we cut down all the trees there is no way to get them back. In this paper, I shall argue that we should all try to save the world's rainforests because it will in turn ruin our lives in the long run.
             First, we should try to save the rainforests because if we don't many species of animals will be extinct. James D. Nations states that, "Today, the human being are eradicating plants and animals at the rate of thousand of species per year. By the end of the twentieth century, this rate may reach ten-thousand species destroyed per year, or more than one species eradicated an hour." (91) This shows us that we need to stop cutting down the forest and try to preserve it instead and because we don't know all of the species in the world yet we may be eliminating a lot more animals than we know of. These plants might be able to help us in the future. We have so many animals that we have never discovered and we could study. There could be animals that make our lives easier. Why should we try to make our live harder instead of easier? How much longer will we sit around and watch the lumber companies destroy our world?
             Second, we should save the rainforest because it may contain many types of plants. According to Nations, "Sometimes, introducing fresh germ plasm from ancestral plants is...