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Over 100 pesticide
ingredients are suspected to cause birth defects, cancer, and
gene mutations.
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Every ton of
recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
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Energy saved from
one recycled aluminum can, will operate a TV set for 3 hours,
and is equal to half a can of gasoline.
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Glass produced from
recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air
pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
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Homeowners use up to
10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers.
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By turning down your
central heating thermostat one degree, fuel consumption is cut
by as much as 10%.
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One ton of carbon
dioxide released into the air can be avoided by replacing a 75
watt light bulb with an energy efficient bulb.
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Everyday 50-100
species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitats
are destroyed by human influence.
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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.
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Already over half of
the world's tropical forests have been lost.
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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.
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The Grasslands cover
one-fifth of the land on Earth.
