Deforestation and climatic change
Burning fossil fuels, in combination with destruction of carbon sinks due to deforestation and other activities, has contributed to more and more carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere – more than can be absorbed from existing carbon sinks such as forests. The build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is driving global warming, as it traps heat in the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide levels are now at their highest in human history.
It is not effective to “offset” greenhouse gas pollution from burning fossil fuels by storing carbon in forests. This is because fossil fuels are pumping much more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than existing forests can absorb. At the same time, carbon stores in forests and other natural carbon sinks will become increasingly unstable as climate change progresses. Droughts, tropical storms, heatwaves and fire weather are increasing in severity and frequency because of climate change,(A,D,2019).
Apart from deforestation there other human activities such as mining activities, construction of infrastructure, agriculture activities especially rice cultivation in developing countries like African countries and south america facilitate changes of climate
In fact that the problem of deforestation has negative impact to the environment like loss of biodiversity, decline of wild animal habitat, forced migration of animal as well as human suffer from climatic change
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