Environmental ScienceDeforestationWe would be amazed to learn all the things our environment provides for our daily lives, one of those things being trees. Trees do so many amazing things for us; they allow us to live on earth by providing oxygen, preventing soil erosion, providing shelter to many different animal species around the world, providing us with heat and energy. They play such an important role in our daily lives that many people don't even realize it. Some little known benefits that trees bring to us are that they actually increase our property value, we use them when we go to school, in our notebooks, when we eat lunch on field trips, in our paper lunch bags and much more. Trees are an integral part of our daily lives, but unfortunately, “three to six billion trees are cut down every year.” (Olson) Whether we realize it or not, we use trees in almost everything we use. Some of the lesser known materials made from wood include: photographic film, coffee filters, chewing gum, vitamins, shatterproof glass, nail polish, imitation bacon, diapers, irrigation pipes and hundreds of other things. As humans, we take for granted everything the environment gives us. And knowing that one day perhaps not in our lifetime, but in the lifetime of our children, that they will not have access to something as fundamental as the forest in their lives, is terrible. Deforestation is a topic that is constantly debated. Many people don't really see this as a big deal. People think; they're just trees, so shouldn't they grow back over time? But what people don't understand is that unfortunately the way civilization works is we want everything and we want it now, there is no moderation. Since the 1950s, we have had all the paper banks. Np, January 7, 2013. Web. April 20, 2014. .Global deforestation. " Globalchange.umich.edu. January 4, 2010. Web. March 27, 2014. .Szalay, Jessie. "Deforestation: facts, causes and effects." Livescience.com. Np, March 06, 2013. Web. March 27, 2014. .Naseem , S. “No Trees...No Humans.” Nature.com, April 12, 2011. Web. nature.com/scitable/blog/our-science/no_trees_no_humans “Modern Day Plague.” /environment.nationalgeographic.com, nd Web.. 2014. .