Answer Question Using With Subjunctive
How can I answer these problems using subjunctive?
- ¿Que podemos hacer en caso de que nos quedemos sin arboles?
- La deforestacion en tu region es muy seria. ¿Que podemos hacer para resolver esto?
Attempt- 1. Tengo miedo que no podamos respirar el aire 2. Me alegro que resolva mediante la plantacion de arboles
2 Answers
Hola, PJ, It looks like you're using"Panorama" I've taught that chapter sooo many times.
OK, Let's see here,
Attempt 1. Tengo miedo de que--and the rest is fine.
Num. 2 Me alegro que, sounds OK, but it's not. "Me alegro de que se resuelva mediante and so forth. Yes, there, a stem change in there.
The "se" is needed to express the"passive" in English which would be. "I am happy that it will be resolved through the planting of trees. Yup, English uses the passive and the "future" to express what we say simply through the subjunctive.
OK, PJ, go get that "A"
Chau.
Daniela helped you with the Spanish, but there's another mistake here: You didn't really answer the questions! I bet the exercise is mostly meant to make you form Spanish sentences, but content actually just as important. Also I'd suggest making your answers a bit longer, put some thought in it and try to express your ideas in Spanish, and you'll learn much more! 
About your first answer: most of the oxygen produced on earth comes from algae, though trees do help and currently we could use all the help we can get... but we could still breath. Other problems deforestation could cause include: being the core of their ecosystem: our cute furry forest friends would lose their habitat and food and likely go extinct, because evolution can't keep up with deforestation's speed, there would be no more or at least way insufficient wood, paper, carton etc., meaning we'd have to use even more plastic (and we all know how bad that'd be), species of trees and other forest flora could die out before we discover we could've extracted an otherwise unavailable medicin from their roots or bast fibre or so.. speaking of trees' roots, they hold water inside & the earth together so that floods don't have such devastating effects on previously fertile farmlands & downhill/valley villages. Trees keep wind and water from directly hitting the earth, thus avoiding too much erosion and keeping desertification at bay. Furthermore, in third world countries there are people who depend directly on the forest to provide them with food, wood for fire and shelter & medicin...
Either way, the effects of deforestation was not what the question asked for: it wants to know what we can do against it. You gave one very good solution: planting new trees. However, how would this work? You could specify that we should obligate wood producing companies to plant 2 trees for every 1 they cut down (to compensate for their years without replantation and the illegal companies that will remain). We could also try to get the government to subsidize companies who follow this rule or put some sort of mark on their products and encourage customers to only buy wood that bears this mark. Try to think of a few more.
And if we are left without a single tree? Well, then we better go recycling our paper very, very well. Maybe you could think of some regulations for this?
