Earth was April 22, 2009. I had a whole slew of mindless facts to use for it...I forgot. :( So, I will do it this week. :)
- Each year, 96 billion pounds of food are wasted in the United States.
- Each day, the sun causes about a trillion gallons of water to evaporate.
- Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
- It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
- An acre of trees can remove about 13 tons of dust and gases every year from the surrounding environment.
- In a year, approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials for American pulp mills and paper.
- Don't leave your tap running!! A dripping faucet means you could be wasting up to 13 liters of water a day.
- Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil. 50 million tons of paper are consumed annually by Americans...more than 850 million trees being cut down.
- Over 1oo,000 birds and sea animals are killed every year due to plastic garbage.
- The Exxon Valdez spilled the equivalent of 125 Olympic-sized swimming pools filled with oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska.
Now that the mindless fact fun is finished...I must say that I resepect the environment because I respect the Creator of the environment. I have tried to be more "environmentally conscious". I have switched, for the most part, to re-usable cloth bags for my groceries. I don't litter and I have a water bottle that I use instead of constantly buying the plastic ones. The difference between me and the gung-go environmentalists is that they are trying to preserve the planet forever, and I know that this is not God's plan. The Bible tells us in 2 Peter 3:10, "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up."
So, instead of trying to make the earth last forever, we just need to take care of it while we are here, and leave it for those that come after us...until the Lord returns.
