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- Over 100 pesticide ingredients are suspected to cause birth defects, cancer, and gene mutations.
- Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
- Energy saved from one recycled aluminum can, will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is equal to half a can of gasoline.
- Glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
- Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers.
- By turning down your central heating thermostat one degree, fuel consumption is cut by as much as 10%.
- One ton of carbon dioxide released into the air can be avoided by replacing a 75 watt light bulb with an energy efficient bulb.
- Everyday 50-100 species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitats are destroyed by human influence.
- 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 1 minute 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 multiplied our population to that of a plague.
- Already over half of the world's tropical forests have been lost.
- Every year approximately four billion tons of carbon accumulates in the air each year, about 30% of this comes directly from the continued burning of the rainforests.
- The Grasslands cover one-fifth of the land on Earth.
For more interesting environmental facts go to http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/facts.htm |
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