What are the effects of the amazon rain forest on the ecosystem?
The Amazon rain forest serves kindof like the lungs for the planet — it absorbs tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide and produces fresh, clean oxygen. The more the trees get cut down, the less carbon absorption and oxygen production we have. Cutting and burning of the trees also produces carbon dioxide, and the cattle they raise in its place produces a lot of methane gas (another greenhouse gas), so it is a triple-whammy. If the practice is not stopped soon, we are all doomed. It may already be too late.
