COVID-19 AND TREES

In today's time when the world is fighting against the pandemic COVID-19  every covid-19 patient is struggling for oxygen in many rural areas. In many cases the patients had to breathe their last morsel just because of lack of oxygen cylinders. The hospitals which are providing enough oxygen to patients are considered as life-saving hospitals, but  unfortunately they cost too much for a normal citizen to afford it. So it can be concluded that oxygen is one of an important life line for a critical covid-19  patient to survive.

Unfortunately human beings have forgot about the only source of oxygen:                                                            TREE.

On an average one person breathes 740kg of oxygen per year. And one tree produces 117.934kg of oxygen per year. Which means that one person needs 7 to 8 trees to breathe per year.

But unfortunately, as per the report of THE UNDERSTORY  3.5 billion to 7 billion trees are cut down every single year! and there would no tree left on the planet in the next 295 years.

 

It is clear that the oxygen is needed in atmosphere to fill the oxygen cylinders used in hospitals. Maybe this pandemic will teach the humankind to value trees which gives us oxygen free of cost from our birth till our death.

-FAIZAN SHAIKH