Sunday, April 22, 2007
Earth Report: 2006decided to catch this documentary cos it sounded and looked interesting. few points i noted down during the 45 mins of it i watched.
1) polar bears may face extinction caused by melting polar ice caps
2) at one point of time sharks were being killed at a rate of 8000 a day/hour (whatever it is it still is alarming. alarming is an understatement too)
3) booming population in china has lead to increase in desert-turning fertile ground (desertification)
4) sand storms can even be seen from space satellite images. imagine what's the situation at the ground level? (deforestation)
5) a large tree can take in 20000kg of CO2 a year. but we're losing trees through deforestation so.. global warming?
6) high CO2 in the air even affects marine life by increasing acidity of sea water->weaken shells of oxygen producing micro-organisms->less O2 for us
7) overfishing at the current rate may wipe out fish stocks in 40years (:
8) hole in the ozone grew 16% larger than expected last year. it is now the size of america and russia combined
9) each human needs 10 trees to make up for his CO2 produced in his lifetime haha
10) fortunately humans' attitudes are improving, and there is hope in that. so give what you have to offer, cos the earth needs it (:
you might want to catch "the end of the world, as we know it" on 29/4 at 7.30 CNA. i think its on how we're producing so much CO2.
who will speak for planet earth?
peace out. i hope i dont live long enough to see the earth die.
gavannnn loved ODAC at 8:50 PM
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