How you use land, say by the kinds of animals you raise in your land, the types of plants, or the minerals can affect global warming. You can explore the differences between a used and a non used land to gain a deeper understanding of global warming. In almost all countries, forests are a vital use of land for many reasons, particularly curbing global warming. A major cause of global warming is excess carbon dioxide on air. Some particular plants are known to eliminate carbon dioxide from the air by scrubbing it off.

Trees, particularly old growth trees are known to scrub off carbon dioxide naturally from the air and keeping it within their cells; reason enough to protect such trees. However, lumber trade believe that cutting old growth trees will create room for new ones, but it is never the case as new trees don’t have the ability to trap and store carbon dioxide hence prevent global warming.

Those who advocate for tree cutting argue that there are certain new trees with the ability to trap additional green house gases than even the old trees. However, bearing in mind that old is gold, you can never compare the new species with trees that have been there for decades. Global warming prevention requires trees with necessary matter to them.

There was a proposed law that aimed to outlaw clear-cutting and suggested that building of roads and logging in forests should be stopped to prevent global warming with the aim of protecting over 13 million acres of prehistoric forest. The forests were unspoiled and lacked roads.

According to various studies that aimed to guesstimate the amount of possible global warming caused by cutting of tropical rain forests, it is not loggers alone who cut down mature trees. Individual’s too who seek places to erect their homes and offices, or farms in the jungle also cut down and burn the rain forests. Global warming is predictable when individuals covetously take forests for their individual purposes.

To make matters worse, deforestation increases some greenhouse gases. In light to the studies, the prevention of global warming should first be aimed at green house emissions as a result of burning of fossil fuels, followed closely by deforestation. It is upon individuals to learn the function of forests in stopping global warming so that they can help the situation by going for other available options such as not depending on old growth trees for lumber.

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