These farms have spread throughout the world, including large areas needed for grazing animals. The trees cut down in these areas are “vital to maintaining the earth's atmosphere,” yet these rainforests are cut down every day (Macionis 534). Human beings do not realize that they are the problem and the answer to environmental safety in our world. The carbon dioxide we release through machines should be matched by the trees we cut down, however, the environment continues to suffer at our wasteful hands and the Earth's temperature rises steadily every year (Macionis