Flora+G.

=Characters:= Elena P Zakiyah A Isabel T Flora GJ

Scene 2
Scene 2 will take place in the playground, facing the trees. We will discuss the effect of deforestation on the soil, and the plant life. We will also talk about deforestation for farming. We will explain the long term implications of deforestation.

Flora: As you just found out, thousands of acres of rain forest are clear-cut every day. This is a major problem.
===Isabel: Forests are clear cut in order to make room for rubber and coffee farms. Rubber and coffee can be found naturally in the forests themselves. ===

Elena: By clear-cutting a forest, you are causing many problems.
===Zakiyah: You are depriving the soil of nutrients that it gets from the naturally growing trees, which causes the soil to become barren and unable to support life. ===

Flora: That means that even after the farm is gone, plants will not be able to grow there for a long time.
===Isabel: This also makes farmers use chemical-based fertilizers, which further destroy the chemical balance in the soil. ===

Zakiyah: That means that the soil gets washed away.
===Flora: What happens is that the roots of the trees "hold on" to the soil, and stop it from dissolving in the rainwater and the running off into a river or lake. ===

Isabel: Erosion makes it difficult for plants to grow, and can permanently destroy a forest.
===Zakiyah: The lack of new growing trees causes the soil to erode even more, and it continues in a vicious cycle that has to be stopped. ===