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Collin Beavan

Argumentative Essay

Humans selfishness
Imagine coming back from a walk and finding your entire town has been demolished,
nothing but dirt left. The human population consumes 58 thousand square miles of forest
each year, the equivalent to 48 football fields a minute! We are invading animals homes,
selfishly devouring nature, and this needs to stop.
The human population is at the top of the food-chain and we are expanding rapidly, far
too rapidly for the world to provide for us. Just last week I saw a company begin to bulldoze
a forest to make a place for a Meijer, when there is a Meijer only 15 minutes away! People
complain of the stupid animals that run out in front of cars, but they do not realize they
hardly have enough room anymore. I believe that we should separate the human world from
the natural world.
Instead of expanding outward, we should look in and recycle old buildings, or demolish
and start from new. If you need more farm land, look at the abandoned city blocks that have
been standing for years, underneath all of them there is still earth! Humans are always trying
to gain more, when they already have enough right in front of them, all they have to do is
work for it.
A recent trend in Philadelphia has given new hope to recycling old city blocks. The Mill
Creek Farm is a farm that turned an empty city lot into a thriving source of food for many in

the city. This conversion has helped create new jobs, healthier food, and a cleaner city for
Philadelphia, so tell me why are we not all doing the same thing?

One community banded together so easily and created something that stops deforestation,
ends hunger, and gives jobs to many. We just need someone to stand up and say enough, and
have the drive to do something about it. I hope you decide to be that person, I hope you will
help save our natural world.
Yes, it is true that America has more trees now than it did in the 1940s and before.
However, these forests are quite young in comparison to the trees that are being cut down.
These younger trees do not have the same abilities that the more mature trees have. For
example the older trees produce more fruit and food, as well as, provide larger housing
opportunities for animals. Quality over quantity is what we must live by, we have to realize
that more trees are good, but a greater amount of mature trees is more beneficial.
Animals need these older forest and for homes. Animals cannot live and sustain
themselves off of the young forests of today. We need to focus on living with what we have
already cleared and planting new trees for next generation. We have added too many animals
to the extinct list already, lets save the world for the next generation and clean-up the mess
we have created.
Think about that walk through your demolished town and just how awful that would be to
you. We take and take and take, without considering the needs of nature around us.
According to author Gary Steiner, Animal, Vegetable, Miserable, humans believe that they
are more important than animals because God made us in his image. Just because we can do

something does not mean that we should. In the last five minutes it took to read this paper a
half square mile of an animals home has already been destroyed.

Works Cited

Huxta, Beth. "Green Cities." Rodale's Organic Life. Rodale's Organic Life, 13 Dec. 2010. Web.
11 Feb. 2016.

Rawles, Simon. "Deforestation." WorldWildlife.org. World Wildlife Fund, Nov. 2015. Web. 08 Feb.
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