Effect of Deforestation on Energy Resources: A Climate Change Crisis Analysis using Pearson Product Moment Correlation

Abstract

This study is aimed at carrying out a study on the effects of deforestation caused as a result of global warming and climate change crisis Delta state precisely. The objectives of the study are to: determine various sources of deforestation and the impacts on the environment. Also, mitigation measures and government regulations are put in place to reduce the impact of deforestation in the environment. The problems investigated are loss of trees, allows for flooding, soil erosion, deforestation, hyper temperatures, climate change, increase in global warming and the environmental effects on man. The methodology involves the use of questionnaires and 200 questionnaires were administered to respondents that lives in the environment. Test of reliability of the experiment was done from the data gotten from questionnaires distributed to staffs (X) and residents (y). The data from the questionnaires were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation method between the dependent (y) and independent (X) variables. The result of the study From the Pearson product moment correlation value (r = 0.92), confirming that there exist a strong correction between the response of the employees and residents. The findings of the research showed that most of the respondents have little knowledge of the consequences of deforestation. It was also found out that the main economic activities of the indigenes were farming, logging, which resulted in destroying large areas of land because they do not take any measures to conserve the forest in search of their basic daily needs. The study recommends that enforcement enacted against logging, education/awareness creation on effects of deforestation, re-introduction of tree planting programs, nurseries should be established in each of the communities to enable them raise seedlings for planting. There should be government regulations to curb the felling of trees by enforcing a serious rules and laws to govern it and the government should enforce a law to ensure monitoring the forests and defaulter penalized. Finally, the government should educate the people, because many are entirely unaware of the global warming problem.

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