Commonplace Post

She thought of the Amazon rainforest, so often called the earth's green lung... She thought of the predictions of several models, that the great forest, currently a massive carbon dioxide sink, might turn into a source of CO2 if it was stressed enough by drought and tree cutting. What would happen then? "Hell on earth," she said aloud. 

- Loosed Upon the World "Entanglement" by Vandana Singh 

This quote brings attention to the fact that we are destroying the only thing that could be saving us. As the story says, our forests are the earth's air purifiers turning the toxic carbon dioxide into the fresh crisp air. They are what we are grasping on to for hope that we will continue to have clean air. We know how important forests are for survival and yet we continue to destroy them. The author brings to light the consequences that will be felt when increasingly more forests are replaced with carbon producing cities. The result would be literal hell as temperatures would rise, air would become toxic, and many other consequences would be experienced. Human life on earth would go extinct.