Houses made of old habitats

There are many reasons to use trees. We use parts of trees every single day without thinking about what it takes to use those things or, most of the time, even realize that trees were used to in the construction of the objects. Even when you walk into a house and sit at a desk you never think about how many trees it took to make that desk, the wooden bed frame behind you, the books pilled up on the desk, and the house that you are sitting in. Something that is even more hidden to our thoughts are the consequences of using that many trees. The consequences are not in the minds of societies as much as they should be. When you cut down a tree you are taking something from the world that took up to 200 years to grow. These trees are cut down and not planted. When you cut down trees you are doing multiple terrible things that include: killing animals and sometimes leaving them for extinction, taking away biodiversity of the planet, taking away “natural levees”, causing erosion, causing flooding, taking away oxygen, adding more CO2, taking away forests/wetlands and turning them into deserts, and ultimately making life very hard for not only animals and wildlife but also for us as humans. Taking down one tree will immediately cause more water run off that will erode the ground where the tree once was. Now, think about what that does to a huge area on a mountain side (currently being deforested in Alaska). The whole mountain, once the trees are gone, will change dramatically from landslides, floods, and the habitats that were killed. Since we are not planting any trees and are continually cutting them down, we are moving closer and closer to turning our whole world into a animal-less desert constantly being flooded without a sight of fresh drinking water anywhere.