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Trees, The Best, or Worst Oxygen Producer

Diperbarui: 10 Februari 2022   11:26

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          Trees are the best plants produced by mother nature. They grew from seeds, then they suck up carbon dioxide for photosynthesis then as a byproduct they let out oxygen. Trees also produce flowers, leaves, wood and fruits, that are also beneficial to humans, animals, and insects alike. Animals eat the fruits or leaves, humans eat the fruits and use the wood for construction, insects eat the flowers nectar to pollinate and/or make honey.

          Trees are very helpful to everything. For instance, the apple tree makes apples, and also helped discover gravity, the orange tree makes oranges, and orange juice, the oak tree makes acorns, spruce and pine trees are used for construction and etc. All trees have a use, even dead trees.

          We've seen different types of trees being used by humans, but what about animals? Animals also use trees, like the beaver, it uses trees to construct a dam. So, it can catch fish easier. It also eats the bark of the tree, before hibernating. Woodpeckers and other birds also like to build nests in the trees. Orangutans and other apes also like to build shelters waaaay up in the trees they use it to sleep, and care for their young ones.

          And now, for the big question, are trees, the best, or worst oxygen producers. Trees are good at producing oxygen, heck, people even say save trees to protect the climate. For storing carbon dioxide on land 1st place has to go to trees. Trees are everywhere, even in peat lands. Peat lands are made up of dead plants that remain buried under swamps for decades. So, it stores carbon dioxide. But sadly, peat lands are being excavated for compost. It's also turned into flat lands. So, it releases carbon dioxide.

Now for producing oxygen and storing oxygen worldwide 1st place goes to the ocean. When I was watching green planet and blue planet narrated by sir David Attenborough, he said that the oceans, produce more oxygen than the amazon rain forest every year. So, we have to protect it, around 30% of the marine life has already been destroyed because of humans. While fishing with big fish nets. Efforts have been made to restore the peat land and the seagrass, but they're still not fast enough to stop climate change.

So now, even all these efforts combined still won't stop climate change, to stop it completely we would have to shut down coal factories, mining companies, etc. trees, peat land, seagrass, and ourselves, we all play a role in climate change, and to stop that, we have to do even more efforts to fix the changes we did. Because climate change is really a ticking time bomb. Those we're a few words from me, and have a good day.

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