Galagnara, Destiny B.
XII- Boyle
Mr. Dave Jucom
July 11, 2019
Illegal Logging
Illegal Logging, as we know, is the extracting and harvesting of timbers in violation
of laws. This has become a rampant problem that has been experienced by the whole
wide world. The extractions of timbers may be easy to do and are done by some people
but the effects made by those actions are hard to come across and are experienced by
everyone. Humans, as we are, must recognize our doings for everything we do creates a
great impact to the society, and that could be in a negative manner. People do such things
due to, perhaps, poverty most especially people from the rural areas. They resort to
extraction of trees in order to gain money. Some also do such just because they possess
the greed for money. By all of these, I can’t help but ask myself, how do these people
sleep at night knowing that by doing such acts, it led to deforestation and left the
inhabitants of earth with nothing but consequences?
I, personally, am saddened by the fact that despite all the blessings people
received such as water to quench our thirst, air for us to breathe, food to satisfy our hunger
and a land to live in, all of these are given to us in order to live however, some still have
the audacity to destroy God’s creation. People get from illegal logging is not just money,
but tragedies as well. The deforestation we experience is one of the main contributors to
the climate change. I realized, if people continue to do such, how will we survive? People
drown themselves in the floods, people suffer from the lack of food and shelter, people
suffer from everything and that’s because of the people as well. Moreover, as times pass
by, we must advocate for change as much as we can in order to influence the people to
avoid doing such acts. Indeed, change starts with the person himself, but a voice of
someone could be a great help to change the hearts of those kinds of people. We must
not let our world be dominated by people who are greedy, insensitive, and cruel. The time
is running so fast that we even get surprised of the daily changes our world has to
experience. We cannot just let bad people rule the world and leave the people who are
innocent experience the effects of the bad things they do. All of us, humans, must reflect
on how we should be the earth’s care taker and not the destroyer. This world is too
precious to be destroyed and we, people, are too precious to be destroyed too. We cannot
just let ourselves suffer for a lifetime, we must do something in order to eradicate these
problems.
In conclusion, this world was not made for people to abuse and exploit. Humans
should not take advantage of the resources and instead, be the advantage. Be the one
to take care of the resources so that all people can live a wonderful and bountiful life. We
are provided by abundance, so we should keep it abundant. It is a win-win situation after
all. We should give justice to God’s creation by valuing it with our utmost will. We must
value the trees as much as we value ourselves. Let us take a step a little step to save the
environment before it’s too late.
Galagnara, Destiny B.
XII- Boyle
Mr. Dave Jucom
July 11, 2019