The Environment's End

Reflection: The purpose of this investigation is to help us understand the importance of keeping our environment stable. This project was all based on MDG’S 7 & 8 (Environmental Sustainability and Global Partnership for Development). Our teacher let us choose what issue we wanted to address in our poem. As seen in my poem, I chose Deforestation. I chose Deforestation because it seemed interesting and nobody else really picked it. I wanted to expand my mind to new things. The most important thing to get out of this project, is a feelings for how people are trying to handle our world’s problems. The most difficult part of this was definitely my picture, I’m not a drawer at all. So for me to create this, it was pretty awesome.

“The Environment’s End”, DR, Drawn, 17 Oct, 2013.

My photo represents an overall unhappy environment. Trees on fire, deadly looking roots, smoke all in the air. Clouds turning black and the sun unhappy.

“The Environment’s End”

They are not good people,

They obliterate natural environments.

All the things we love, need, praise, are lost

Not destroyed, but completely destroyed

Deforestation is a crime, a felony,

It should be forbidden,

Our animals come to your home, tear it down

then call it a day.

You’re not alone, they feel the same way.

Fires spread from forest to forest

but men don’t care, they promote it.

How do we expect to reach our goal,

if Men don’t go through with it?

We have to keep our forests safe.

Every year,

30,000 sq. mi of forest land are lost

due to Deforestation.

Is this what you all want?

Fire, death, natural extinction?

At the rate we are going,

ALL rain forests can vanish in 100 years.

That’s not cool,

At least someone notices it.

FOTFP ( Friends Of The Forest Preserves)

have been helping with our Deforestation problem

for over 10 years.

They understand how Deforestation can

not only harm the environment, but us too.

If you didn’t know,

Deforestation lets off bad toxins in the air,

polluting our oxygen that we breathe in.

A wise lady I once spoke to,

told me that Deforestation can lead to disease spread.

Imagine if an infected rodent got kicked out of his natural habitat

and he had to find a new home,

coming in contact with more humans,

giving away diseases.

About 70% of our animals live in forests,

they can’t adapt anywhere else.

So now, you’re killing animals too?

Some type of American,

I thought we needed animals to survive?

How can you just sit there and stare at me,

while this is happening as we speak?

Unless you want an unstable environment I would take action,

NOW!

References:

“Deforestation: Facts, Causes & Effects”, livescience.com,  Jessie Szala, Web. 13 Oct, 2013.

“Protect, Restore, and Promote”, n.p. Web. 13 Oct, 2013.

“Deforestation”, environment.nationalgeographic.com, n.p. Web. 17 Oct, 2013.
Kanusch, Barbara, personal interview with CDC worker, 16 Oct, 2013.