17/04/2022
Hi everyone!
Today's Topic: Environmental Issues
Things you should know!
10 things to know.
1. Americans throw 25 trillion Styrofoam cups every year!
2. Wood and Paper wasted annually can heat upto 50,000,000 houses or 50 million houses for 20 years.
3. American throw away 2.5 million or 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour!
4. Beef is one of the major causes of Deforestation. As, cows need 28x land than chicken or pigs for grazing purposes.
5. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is a collection of trash and waste and is 2x bigger than Continental America. Contains about 100,000,000,000 kgs of waste. It stretches from west coast of America to Japan along the Pacific Ocean.
6. In the last 170 years, we added 2.4 trillion tons of Carbon Dioxide into our atmosphere. Half of this was added in the last 35 to 50 years.
7. Most emissions come from a relatively small number of countries. The seven largest emitters—the United States, the European Union (EU), China, Russia, Japan, India, and Canada—accounted for more than 70% of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2004.1
8. The Ozone Layer “Hole” which is 29 million square kilometers, is expected to be fully healed in the next 55 years. This is due to the worldwide banning of chlorofluorocarbon and hydrofluorocarbon.
8. Say no to bags when you go shopping! A plastic bag is used for an average of 12 minutes but will remain in the environment for 1,000 years before it decomposes.
9. Germany has the best recycling rate in the world followed by Austria, South Korea, and Wales.
10. Around 20% of the world’s total oxygen is produced in the Amazon rainforest, where 1% of tree species sequester 50% of the region’s carbon. The forest has 16,000 different species of trees and is estimated to have nearly 400 billion individual trees. All of this arboreal magnificence sequesters between 90 and 140 billion metric tons of carbon. When we lose forest habitat, that carbon makes its way back into the atmosphere.
11 (Bonus Fact). Despite the fact that Norway is over 6,000 miles from Brazil, the country donated a billion US dollars to help save the Amazon rainforest between 2008 and 2015. In fact, the Norwegians are the biggest benefactor in the world for protecting the tropical rainforests.
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