ASSIGNMENT#2

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ALL

THE TREES IN THE WORLD
DIE?

Name: Rizwan Ali

Roll no: 319
Class: Electrical Engineering (2010)
Subject: Communication Skills
Teacher: Miss Uzma
 WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF ALL
THE TREES IN THE WORLD
DIE?

Importance Of Trees:
Trees are the largest and longest living organisms on earth. To grow tall the tree has become
a miracle of engineering and a complex chemical factory. It is able to take water and salts out
of the earth and lift them up to the leaves, sometimes over 400 ft. above. By means of
photosynthesis the leaves combine the water and salts with carbon dioxide from the air to
produce the nutrients which feed the tree. In this process, as well as wood, trees create many
chemicals, seeds and fruit of great utility to man. Trees also remove carbon dioxide, the main
greenhouse gas, from the air.

Trees are of continued importance to the environment. Tropical rain forests have of particular
significance; although they now occupy less than 6 per cent of the land surface of the earth
they probable sustain more than half of the biological species on the planet.

Notwithstanding the debt we owe to trees, their emotive power, and their importance to other
forms of life, the forested area of the earth is steadily being depleted. This is leading to the
degradation of the environment and the extinction of many species. There is now a real
danger that in the not very distant future man will destroy a large proportion of the present
population of species on earth, create an uninhabitable environment, and then die out himself.
If this happens it will not be the first time that a large proportion of the species on the earth
have been extinguished.
If They Die, Global Warming would
happen:

What is Global Warming?

The most undesirable and inevitable effect of death of all trees would be Global warming.
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and
oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Most of the observed
temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century has been caused by increasing
concentrations of greenhouse gases, which result from human activity such as the burning of
fossil fuel and deforestation. With death of all trees, there would be an immense increase in
temperature due to increase in the amount of greenhouse gas CO2. The frequency of warm
spells or heat waves would very likely increase.

Effects of Global Warming:

Increased Floods:
This increase in temperature would lead to meltdown of icebergs and most of the ice in the
world would melt. Increasing temperature is likely to lead to increasing precipitation too.
This in turn would make sea levels high due to which water cycle would speed up. Amount of
rainfall would boost and a large number of floods will follow. This is obvious as we have
seen greater number of floods in 21st century than any other time in history, and all of this is
because of reduction in the number of trees.

Oxygen Depletion:
The amount of oxygen dissolved in the oceans may decline, with adverse consequences for
ocean life.

Health:
Human beings will be exposed to climate change through changing weather patterns
(temperature, precipitation, sea-level rise and more frequent extreme events) and indirectly
through changes in water, air and food quality and changes in ecosystems, agriculture,
industry and settlements and the economy. Health status of millions of people would be
affected through, for example, increases in malnutrition; increased deaths, diseases and injury
due to extreme weather events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency
of cardio-respiratory diseases due to high concentrations of ground-level ozone in urban areas
related to climate change; and altered spatial distribution of some infectious diseases. Climate
change would bring some benefits in temperate areas, such as fewer deaths from cold
exposure, and some mixed effects such as changes in range and transmission potential of
malaria in Africa. Overall, it is expected that benefits would be outweighed by negative
health effects of rising temperatures, especially in developing countries. Air pollution too
would increase rapidly, as trees are ‘pollution controllers’ and without them, it would be
uncontrollable. This would further result in rise in number of deaths by air pollution.

Unemployment:
Millions of people’s employment is directly or indirectly linked to trees. If all of trees would
perish, all of them would get unemployed. Timber industries would collapse and business of
fruits, vegetables or other items related to trees would vanish.

Ultimately, Death of Human race!!!

The ultimate effect of eradication of all trees would be extermination of all human beings.
This is because human beings require oxygen to breathe. Without the producers of oxygen
i.e. trees, there would be a reduction in amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. Humans would
unable to breathe and would eventually die of breathlessness. Another cause of death of the
human race would be competition of resources. With the annihilation of all trees, there would
not be much to eat except animals (who themselves will die). Therefore humans would
compete and kill each other. One other cause of the death of humans would be the extreme
temperature changes and natural disasters, and all of these would be enough to deplete us.