Islamic guidelines on tree planting

Muhammad Nurul Islam Qadiri

Introduction:

The world is divided into two classes of animals and plants. These two classes are dependent on each other to conduct their life cycle. In the case of respiration, the surprising thing between both classes is that one excludes the other! That is, the plant class inhales the poisonous gas called carbon dioxide that animals exhale as carbon dioxide, and the plant class inhales what animals exhale as oxygen and lives. Subhanallah! What a vicious circle! After the industrial revolution, the world is facing a great threat due to the combination of carbon emissions from factories and carbon emissions from factories due to fossil fuels and deforestation. Our beloved motherland, Bangladesh, which is rich in water and fruits, is also becoming a hot country today. Global warming is turning many green and green areas into deserts. Severe droughts are melting polar ice caps and submerging the lower regions of the world. It is necessary for a country to have 25% of its total land area as forest; only then will the climate of that country be at a tolerable level. But in the name of industrialization, the unscrupulous and self-interested globalists are destroying forests and trees everywhere, establishing factories and factories, and to assert their own power, due to the excessive use of fuel in nuclear production and nuclear testing, global warming is increasing. As a result, humanity is facing a threat today. If excessive carbon emissions are not prevented, the animal world will soon become extinct. And this excessive carbon emissions can be prevented only through the preservation and expansion of afforestation. Therefore, Islam has urged the planting of more trees in order to protect humanity and maintain environmental balance.

 Effects of excessive carbon emissions on nature
The excessive increase of both carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) is a major cause of damage to the animal world. The excessive presence of these two types of carbon is responsible for global warming. Its environmental impact is very serious. Carbon dioxide is an important greenhouse gas that absorbs the heat radiated by the earth’s surface. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is a primary source of life on earth and its concentration has been controlled by photosynthesis since the creation of the earth. Since the industrial revolution, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing rapidly due to the combustion of carbon-based fuels and climate change is occurring in the animal world with the increase in global warming. It is the main source of ocean acidification. It dissolves in water in the form of carbonic acid and increases the salinity of water and air, damaging animals, plants and fields. The increase in carbon in the air causes suffocation and difficulty breathing; since the body does not get normal oxygen. The heart rate increases to make up for the lack of oxygen. This causes chest pain and even pain. The brain is affected by the lack of oxygen. The eyes become sleepy, and the person yawns frequently to get extra oxygen. On the contrary, strange thoughts come to mind. Due to the decrease in oxygen in the brain, some parts of it stop working. As a result, the person loses consciousness first. This is called a blackout. After this, the neurons in the brain start to die. As a result, brain damage occurs first, then brain death. As the heart rate increases too much, the heart stops working; which results in death. In this context, let me say that the effect of carbon monoxide is also somewhat similar. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas that is produced when gasoline, wood, coal, kerosene, cigarettes, etc. are partially burned. One of the components of the natural environment is air. The scope and prevalence of air pollution are the greatest than any other pollution. Because air can spread pollutants everywhere in a short time. Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental risks to health. 9 out of 10 people in the world breathe polluted air. Every year, air pollution causes the death of about 7 million people in the world. In Bangladesh, about 173,500 people died due to air pollution in 2019, which is about 50,000 more than in 2017. However, in the case of carbon monoxide, oxygen is not beneficial. Because carbon monoxide creates stable carboxy hemoglobin in the blood, due to which the blood loses its normal ability to carry oxygen. As a result, animals die quickly.
The main and basic material for the survival of animals is oxygen, which is produced and released from trees and is taken in by the animal world in the form of air. Trees are nature purifiers. The amount of oxygen that a full-grown tree produces in a year meets the needs of 10 adult people for the whole year. In 1979, Professor T. M. Das of the University of Calcutta, considering the contribution of a full-grown tree in monetary value, showed that the economic value of a 50-year-old tree is about $ 1,88,000; whose current value is 1 dollar = 109.841 taka – 2,06,50,108 taka. Allahu Akbar! (Source: Indian Biologist, Volume-11, Issue-1-2).
In the present world, 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide are released every year. With every breath, the animal world eliminates the toxic substance carbon dioxide. Trees are that
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