... our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 square miles of closed canopy rain forest" (74). Unfortunately, each year another two percent of this priceless treasure is lost. At these present rates ... temperature increase could also turn productive farmland into desert. The second major problem is timber cutting, or logging. An estimated twenty-five thousand square miles are being cut for logging each year. Annually, each American uses an average of forty-seven pounds of paper...

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• Grade Level: High School