Who really does care about trees? The answer is everyone should. Deforestation is an emerging environmental problem regarding forest depletion and clearing. It is commonly used-and abused-by radical environmentalists groups as a scapegoat for attacks on capitalism and big business-most notably by "Greenpeace." These groups seem to do the issue to death by using trivial, low-tech and unrelenting ways of interfering with business, thereby destroying credibility for the issue. However, this is a serious problem and must be addressed. We as a society should not, and cannot accept deforestation of tropical rainforests.
             Globally, 40,000 square kilometers are deforested each year, roughly the size of Switzerland (Rampant Logging). Deforestation and global warming seem incomparable, but the forests are a large consumer of Carbon Dioxide, the number one greenhouse gas, therefore, the comparison is warranted and a direct relationship can be established. "Not only is global warming real, according to the report, but its consequences-heat waves, water shortages, rising sea levels, loss of beaches and marshes, more frequent and violent weather-will be punishing for Americans," boasts one report on global warming appearing in Nation (Hertsgaard). "We projected [in 1980] that tropical deforestation would occur at rates in excess of an acre per second, and for 20 years, that's what happened," the same grim news, merely from another source (Recycling Environmentalism).
             Some say that practices including "reforestation"-the planting of new forests-can help curb these problems. Unfortunately for those who say that, no solid evidence exists to support that. The lack of evidence likewise extends to animal impacts, nowhere does it say that the animals can adapt to their new, artificial habitats. It is troubling that this technique is even mentioned in the Kyoto Protocol as there is no evidence to support its effectivene...