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Human influenced facts
-If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year.
-On the average, the 140 million cars inAmerica are estimated to travel almost 4 billion miles in a day, and according to the Department of Transportation, they use over 200 million gallons of gasoline doing it.
-Every year we throw away 24million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75% of our solid waste in the fall.
-Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
-About 1% of U.S. landfill space isfull of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.
-Every day 40,000 children die from preventable diseases.
-A three percent annual growth rate will result in the doubling ofconsumption and production of food and other products in 25 short years.-
The amount of motor vehicles that are expected to be operated will increase 15 million a year until at least 2010.
-Theworld's per capita grain production has been on the downfall since 1985 despite the use of fertilizers and pesticides.
-Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as theirhabitat and human influences destroy them.
The Earth
-Deserts are advancing and taking over the land. In Mali the desert has taken over about 220 miles in as few as 20 years. Deserts can be repelled,by developing tree-planting projects, having better agriculture and by managing the land better. However, governments still are reluctant to fund anti-desertification, despite horrific droughts thathave occurred in recent years
-The Earth has been around for 4.6 billion years. Scaling this time down to 46 years we have been around for 4 hours and our Industrial Revolution began just 1minute ago. During this short time period we have ransacked the planet for ways to get fuels and raw materials, have been the cause of extinction of an unthinkable amount of plants and animals, and have...
Human influenced facts
-If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year.
-On the average, the 140 million cars inAmerica are estimated to travel almost 4 billion miles in a day, and according to the Department of Transportation, they use over 200 million gallons of gasoline doing it.
-Every year we throw away 24million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75% of our solid waste in the fall.
-Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
-About 1% of U.S. landfill space isfull of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.
-Every day 40,000 children die from preventable diseases.
-A three percent annual growth rate will result in the doubling ofconsumption and production of food and other products in 25 short years.-
The amount of motor vehicles that are expected to be operated will increase 15 million a year until at least 2010.
-Theworld's per capita grain production has been on the downfall since 1985 despite the use of fertilizers and pesticides.
-Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as theirhabitat and human influences destroy them.
The Earth
-Deserts are advancing and taking over the land. In Mali the desert has taken over about 220 miles in as few as 20 years. Deserts can be repelled,by developing tree-planting projects, having better agriculture and by managing the land better. However, governments still are reluctant to fund anti-desertification, despite horrific droughts thathave occurred in recent years
-The Earth has been around for 4.6 billion years. Scaling this time down to 46 years we have been around for 4 hours and our Industrial Revolution began just 1minute ago. During this short time period we have ransacked the planet for ways to get fuels and raw materials, have been the cause of extinction of an unthinkable amount of plants and animals, and have...
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