Possible life expectancy of trees is reduced by mankind in dozens of times

We do not even think about how firmly the word "tree" has entered into our life with you. This creation of nature helps to survive mankind from the moment of its appearance: burning, it warmed man; Cooked food on fire; From flexible branches crafted bows and arrows; The trunks of more powerful and durable rocks went for the construction of houses and furniture.

Today, wood is used even more actively than several centuries ago. The rapidly growing population and demands are growing rapidly. Who takes into account the life expectancy of trees with such rapid and devastating deforestation? And is it considered at all? What will happen to humanity in the next hundred years?

Just imagine: a hectare of forest per day can absorb 250 kg of carbon dioxide, giving in return 250 kg of oxygen, and coniferous trees - three times more! It turns out that mankind consciously deprives itself of the opportunity to breathe, and hence - the ability to survive. But this is only part of the tip of the huge iceberg of the impending catastrophe.

The condition of the soil and the climate in general also depends on the forest. It is the forest and the planting that delay the flow of water after the rains and the melting of snow; It is in the forest that the most fertile soils, formed over decades, are the result of decomposition of fallen leaves; It is the forest that is the refuge, the home and the place of subsistence for most animals, birds, insects, and plants.

Where there are no trees, the water flows down to the riverbeds, without stopping, washing away the plants, eroding the soil, forming ravines. The moisture which has left in the rivers, any more does not come back, so, the earth grows scanty, not allowing to grow those plants which once pleased an eye. All living things, deprived of their homes, either go to other, preserved forests, or perish. There is an imbalance, the outcome of which is predicted, and sounds like a verdict: the desert ...

How much effort and how much time will our descendants need to restore mercilessly exterminated natural wealth? After all , the life expectancy of trees is not always great, and the resource, alas, is non-limitless. This means that some species of trees will not be seen by our grandchildren, not even our children.

Especially alarming is the minimal life expectancy of trees. For example, for a plum it is not more than 60 years (and usually about 20). For poplar, aspen and alder - 150 years. This suggests that some trees can be cut down before they can bear fruit and multiply. As a result - the complete extinction of the species.

Of course, the life expectancy of oak is much higher - up to a half thousand years. But even if you give life to a new oak forest now, it will take at least a hundred years until the microclimate at the site of the cut down forest begins to recover. And focus on the word "start" here.

The same picture emerges if you take another tree. For example, the life expectancy of pine cedar European (and also already extinct) is 1000 years. A little less. Just think: what we have been striving for light of 1000 years, we are ready to destroy completely in half a century!

Silent, submissive trees that give us shelter, food, warmth and many more blessings will disappear completely in half a century! It remains only 50 years. This is the figure called environmentalists.

Let's take individual countries for clarity. In England, there are 5% of forests left, in Spain and France - about 15%, in Bessarabia - about 5%. At the place once the noisy green oak trees today are already desert ...

And what has the northern Black Sea region turned into, famous once for virgin lands, beech forests and oak groves? Today it is a meager steppe blown by all the winds.

An example of a careful attitude to the wealth of the Earth for us should be the ancient civilizations. Their representatives clearly understood the need to preserve forests. Even the Babylonian king Hammuri, for example, issued a law on their preservation. Then cutting down trees was punishable by death. Later, Thales of Miletus and Aristotle wrote great works on the need for careful treatment of nature, on possible changes in the climate, subsequent to the barbaric felling of trees, and ecological catastrophe as a whole.

But now very few people know about these works. About how the forest affects the climate, it was written before the revolution: "... they affect the humidity, the amount of precipitation, the temperature fluctuations, the forest decreases the average annual temperature, the temperature decreases and the temperature rises in general, the rain falls more, the moisture Is utilized by the soil much more densely ... ".

Are we, people reasonable, completely forgotten about our minds, having lost the sense of reality, and mindlessly rushing to the abyss, dragging the generations that are coming to replace us? We have already reduced the average life expectancy of trees dozens of times. How can we now be surprised at such a drastic change of climate, the desiccation of the seas, the formation of huge deserts? Perhaps, by means of terrible cataclysms, the Earth, writhing in the death throes, desperately tries to restore our minds, defending itself on the last breath from the "parasites" that have filled it up?