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Nature matters(or How to save the Planet)

By Joo Paulo Alves

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This is Earth

Notactualsize

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Yet it is treated as if itsresources were infinite

They are clearly not!

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Problems are

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There are all sorts of problems

Global warming Deforestation Lack of freshwatter

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Earth is getting hot.

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Green house gases are causing this

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Gases that come mostly from human activity

and burning of fossil fuels.

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10/43Forests are being destroyed

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11/43Forests are being destroyed

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Source:http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8

245miles

(394km)

181 miles (291 km)

This area used to be Amazonian forest

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8

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Source:http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8

245miles

(394km)

181 miles (291 km)

This area used to be Amazonian forest

Now its completely

gone

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-10.90883,-62.056274&spn=3.785855,4.768066&z=8

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Were also

running out of fresh

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By 2025, one third of

the global population willnot have access toadequate drinking water.

Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the Government's Stern Reviewon the economics of climate change

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Is it a crisis? If we don't do somedecent water planning, it could be.

Jack Hoffbuhr, director of American Water Works Association.

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Were clearly heading into the

wrong direction

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Turn off lights andappliances when

you leave a room.

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Turn off lights andappliances when

you leave a room.

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Use public transportation

Or better

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WALK!

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But if you really have to

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An hybrid car,,that is.

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Plant a tree

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Reduce the amount of time

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Reduce the amount of timeyou spend on the shower

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Buy

recycledpaper.

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Buy

recycledpaper.

(No, I also did not know thatrecycled toilet paper existed)

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34/43Prefer fluorescent lights.

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35/43electronics in stand-by.

Turnoff

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cle

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Alertyounger

generationsaboutthese

issues

And remember what

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Photo by DartVader

And remember whatChief Seattle once said

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Photo by valerio

http://www.sxc.hu/profile/valeriohttp://www.sxc.hu/profile/valerio

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THE ENDOr is it just a new beginning?

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