The Amazing Earth

Our world is a beautiful place and it has sustained everything living on it for millions of years. Although our presence has done much damage to it, we still have a chance to change it.
The wonderful thing that is happening today is that people are becoming more aware of the needs of our environment and are showing signs of willingness to make a change. When we talk of environment, it involves everything around us, not just the weather. It includes all the animals, plants and the human beings living in this planet.

Here are some amazing environmental facts that you need to know about.

• Human consumption of Earths natural resources more than tripled between 1970 and 2015. Our use of natural resources is expected to continue growing and more than double from 2015 to 2050.
• According to NASA, the worlds rain forests will be gone by 2100 if the current rate of destruction continues.
• If current patterns continue, we will have emptied the worlds oceans for seafood by 2050.
• The consumer society is thirsty. Very thirsty. There will be no water by 2040 if we keep doing what we are doing today. (Professor Benjamin Sovacool of Aarhus University, Denmark).
• The world population is 215,000 people larger today than it was yesterday.
• If all life on Earth was put on a scale, the human population would only make up about one ten-thousandth of the total weight of life on Earth.
• By 2100, the global urban population will produce three times more waste than today
• 27,000 trees are cut down each day so we can have Toilet Paper.
• Aluminum can be recycled continuously, as in forever. Recycling 1 aluminum can save enough energy to run our TVs for at least 3 hours. 80 trillion aluminum cans are used by humans every year.
• American companies alone use enough Paper to encircle the Earth 3x! (Its a good thing that businesses are moving towards going paperless)
• We can save 75,000 trees if we recycled the paper used on the daily run of the New York Times alone.
• When you throw plastic bags and other plastic materials in the ocean, it kills as many as 1 million sea creatures annually.
• A glass bottle made in our time will take more than 4,000 years to decompose.
• Only 1% of our planets water supply can be used. 97% is ocean water and 2% is frozen solid in the Arctic, for now.
• Our planet gains inhabitants numbering to 77 million people a year.
• An estimated 50,000 species inhabiting our tropical forests become extinct annually. Thats an average of 137 species a day.
• Rainforests are cut down at a rate of 100 acres per minute.
• The worlds oldest trees are more than 4,600 years old.
• Landfills are composed of 35% packaging materials.