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Worldwide Pollution
Every day, earth becomes more and more polluted. Air pollution fills our lungs with deadly substances. Water pollution is rapidly eradicating what little freshwater we have left. Land pollution is causing once-fertile lands to become little more than deserts. While many solutions have been offered, NONE are successful. But there is hope! A REAL solution exists overlooked by environmentalists, government agencies and scientists!
This AND SEVERAL OTHER EMISSIONS HAVE POLLUTED THE EARTH
– Worries about global warming have increased around the world this year and many people want more government action to slow climate change, a survey showed on Tuesday.
Sixteen percent of more than 26,000 Internet users in 47 nations surveyed in March said climate change was a “major concern” against just 7 percent in a survey in October, according to the report by the Nielsen Company and Oxford University.
U.N. reports blaming human emissions from burning fossil fuels for warming that could lead to more heatwaves, desertification, floods and rising sea levels had apparently spurred concerns and far more media coverage
In the survey, about 40 percent of those expressing concern wanted governments to restrict companies’ emissions of greenhouse gases and wanted more investment in low-emission cars, houses and renewable energy.
Thirty-one percent thought people should recycle more. But only 3 percent said people should reduce air travel.
People in Switzerland, France, Australia and Canada were most worried about climate change, with more than 30 percent rating it among their top two concerns alongside issues such as the economy, health and job security.
The Group of Eight industrialized nations will meet in Germany for a summit from June 6-8. Among G8 nations, people in Russia and the United States were least concerned by warming.
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Australian protesters held a “picnic rally” against the logging of native forests while hundreds of Indian policemen swapped guns for spades to plant trees on Tuesday to highlight World Environment Day.
Across Asia, people learned about worm farming and composting, listened to lectures about renewable energy and cutting carbon emissions, while school children took part in plays and painting competitions.
Catholic nuns plant trees in a field, symbolising a deforested area, during a program to mark the World Environment Day in Manila June 5, 2007.
A woman dances in a field, symbolising a deforested area, during a program to mark the World Environment Day in Manila June 5, 2007.
More than 50 people halted logging operations in the southern Australian state of Victoria, calling for an end to native forest logging, the Wilderness Society said.
“Trees are giant carbon pumps, sucking carbon from the air and pumping it into the ground, trunks and branches. To protect us from the impacts of dangerous climate change, this destruction must stop,” said Luke Chamberlain, a campaigner for the society.
Hundreds of policemen India’s western state of Gujarat pledged to turn barren areas into fruit orchards by planting mango and guava trees.
“We will keep our gun and baton aside and pick up a spade to plant trees all around our offices,” said Sujata Solanki Majumdar, a senior police officer in Gandhinagar, the state capital. “If the cops go green, then the people will follow too.”
In Vadodara in central Gujarat, housewife Savita Dabhi sat outside her home, cooking a four-course meal for her family and friends on a solar cooker to promote the benefits of renewable energy.
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Global concern about climate change has risen dramatically over the last six months and consumers increasingly expect their governments to act, according to a survey published on Tuesday.
The survey by the Nielsen Company and Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, found 42 percent of global online consumers believe governments should restrict companies’ emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
A G8 summit of rich nations this week could pave the way for a world deal on how to tackle global warming.
Rich nations and major developing nations such as China, India and Brazil are under pressure to agree targets to cut emissions and to start talks on shaping the next phase of the U.N. Kyoto Protocol climate pact, which runs out in 2012.
This year’s World Environment Day focuses on the theme “Melting Ice — a Hot Topic?” to complement International Polar Year 2007.
The United Nations said subtropical Vietnam, which has a 3,200-km (2,000-mile) coastline, could be one of the worst-hit countries if sea levels continue to rise at current rates.
In the central coastal city of Danang, members of the Youth Union planted trees and picked up rubbish from beaches. The government chose the city for the day’s events because of an increase in the frequency of typhoons and floods in the region.
The United Nations Development Programme said on Tuesday that if global sea levels rose by one meter, Vietnam would face losses of $17 billion per year, one-fifth of the population would lose their homes, 12.2 percent of the most fertile land could be lost and the southern Mekong Delta would have unprecedented flooding.
China, one of the biggest polluters and facing public anger over foul air and water, said on Tuesday it had slowed, but not reversed, a rising tide of pollution from frenetic industrialization. China is the world’s largest emitter of sulphur dioxide, which is released from burning fossil fuels and smelting and causes acid rain.
About 100 environmentalists gathered in a city park of Banda Aceh, capital of Indonesia’s Aceh province, to show their support for a logging moratorium that will be announced on Wednesday by the provincial governor
Wearing T-shirts saying “Save the forest with your hands, support the logging moratorium”, the activists formed a human chain around 500 tree stumps made of papier-mache and held a minute’s silence.
Source:http://today.reuters.com/news
