Environment

We've got to Save Our Planet Earth!

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Oh, No! Our earth is in trouble, and we've got to save it!

Oh, No!: Bad Facts about our earth

• If you throw away 2 aluminum cans, you waste more energy than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) of the world's poorest people use a day.

• Making a new can from scratch uses the uses the energy equal to half a can of gasoline.

• About one third of what an average American throws out is packaging.

• More than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) trees are used to make disposable diapers every year.

• In one minute, 50 acres of rainforest are destroyed.

• Some rain has a pH of 3 or 4. (which is pretty acidic, considering 7 is neutral, not acidic, and battery acid has a pH of 1). Some fish, such as lake trout and smallmouth bass, have trouble reproducing at a pH of 6, which is only slightly acidic. Some clams and snails can't survive at all. Most crayfish are dead at a pH of 5. You can see how bad this is for the environment.

• On average, a person in the US uses energy two times more than a person in Japan or West Germany does, and 50 times more than a person in India.

• About 90% of the energy used in lighting a standard (incandescent) light bulb is lost as heat.

• Air conditioning uses 10 times more energy than a fan, therefore, it creates 10 times the pollutants.

• It takes half the output of the Alaskan pipeline to heat the air that escapes from all the homes in the US during a year.

• Cars and pick-up trucks are responsible for about 20% of the carbon dioxide released into the air.

• There are about 500 million automobiles on the planet, burning an average of 2 gallons of fuel a day. Each gallon releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air.

• About 80% of our trash goes to landfills, 10% is incinerated, and 10% is recycled.

• Since there is little oxygen underground, where we bury our garbage, to help bacteria eat the garbage, almost nothing happens to it....