What happens if there no trees

Sounds crazy, right? During the "dry season," trees regulate and anchor the dirt by releasing water. Deforested areas, however, are liable to chronic droughts that obstruct river navigation, disrupt industrial operations and kill crop production all together. Storm water runoff if it rains not reduced, but increased which'll contribute to small floods and topsoil erosion.

Furthermore, trees add humidity into the air through transpiration but the lack of trees results in the lack of moisture in the air. We use and waste paper everyday without realizing we're helping to kill four billion trees cut down every year.

Due to global deforestation, there'd be no paper, baseball bats, barrels, books, blocks, benches, crutches, coffee filters, guitars, grocery bags, pencils, pine oil, beds, billboards, buttons, fuelwood, charcoal, industrial roundwood, candy wrappers,chewing gum, cork, crayons, spices, egg cartons, kites, linoleum, luggage, paper, pingpong balls, wooden chopsticks, rubber, tambourines, telephone books, tires, bark, fiber, dyes, incense, latexes, oils, resins, shellac, tanning compounds, waxes, toilet paper, turpentine, xylophones or wooden yo-yos.

Food harvested from trees like fruits, nuts, berries and maple syrup would be nonexistent as well. There are already many debates over whether we currently abuse non-renewable resources, but the most important of these resources is probably freshwater. Future politicians are going to have to make ground-breaking decisions on how to preserve enough freshwater resources for their country, and one option would be to wage war against othersto the death. Rhett A.

Butler, "Global Consequences of Deforestation in the Tropics. University of Michigan, " Global Deforestation. Shukla, C. Nobre, and P. Steve Nix, About. Trees are staples of countless childhoods and feature heavily in art, literature, poetry, music and more.

They have factored into animistic religions since prehistory and play prominent roles in other major religions practiced today. Buddha attained enlightenment after sitting beneath the Bodhi Tree for 49 days, while Hindus worship at Peepal trees, which serve as a symbol for Vishnu.

In the Torah and Old Testament, God makes trees on the third day of creation — even before animals or humans — and in the Bible, Jesus dies on a wooden cross built from trees.

All told, human beings would struggle to survive in a world without trees. Urbanised, Western lifestyles would quickly become a thing of the past and many of us would die from starvation, heat, drought and floods. Crowther, on the other hand, suspects that life would only persist in a Mars-like colony, enabled by technology and entirely divorced from the existence we have always known. Join one million Future fans by liking us on Facebook , or follow us on Twitter or Instagram.

If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. What If Share using Email. By Rachel Nuwer 12th September As the Amazon fires continue to burn, Rachel Nuwer asks: how dependent are we on the survival of forests?

There would be massive extinctions of all groups of organisms, both locally and globally — Jayme Prevedello. Large amounts of carbon would run into the oceans, causing extreme acidification and killing possibly everything but jellyfish.

Even if we could live in a world without trees, who would want to? Around the BBC. There are a variety of trees available to plant, from flowering beauties to delicious fruits… and everything in between. And, you can choose hearty species that are native to your region.

Not only is this a great way to get started, but it can also when done with a plan help you lower your energy costs. Shade trees planted correctly can lower your utility use… which means fewer carbon emissions too! You can choose the best organization by determining the amount of your carbon emissions, to do this, use an ecological footprint calculator.

You can also get involved in local and community projects designed to plant trees. Mapping tree density at a global scale. Nature, Global Forest Resource Assessment Rome: The United Nations. Height limit predicted for tallest trees. Landscape Trees and Climate Change.

The human physiological impact of global deoxygenation. World of Change: Amazon Deforestation. Deforestation explained. Deforestation Explained. Forest vegetation plays an important role in protecting water quality.

Global Ocean Oxygen Network. US and World Population Clock. The cattle will die because of lack of plantation to eat. The cows, buffalos, goats etc. There would be no forests and hence no fresh air. The trees help in giving us the oxygen we breathe by absorbing the carbon dioxide in the air. Without plants, this difficulty would arise.

In various parts of the world, ninety percent of people live in houses with no electricity. Household energy in the form of charcoal and wood are provided by the plants. Hundreds and thousands of people would perish without the availability of this fuel source. In the absence of plants, nutrient-rich topsoil would be no more, making it enormously difficult to grow food and sustain life.

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