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> Each year, 30,000 square miles of forest are destroyed.
> Everyday, one animal species is lost.
> Consumption has grown 5% each year since 1973.
>The size of an average home has risen from 1,600 square geet to 2,100 square feet while the amount ofpeople per home has decreased from 3.6 to 3 persons pre home. This means that the consumption of energy and resources has risen tremendously, causing greater damage to the environment.
> Scientists have determined that the five warmest years since the fifteenth century were all in the 1990s.
[Earth Fact Book: Facts & Maps. Interarts, Ltd.]
These are only a few problems in the environment that humans have caused. The Earth is deteriorationg die to our negligence and in only a matter of decades, some of the Earth's resources will be all used up and life will not be as easy as it is now. If we start doing something about it now, we can make the next generations' lives as good as ours. It's only a matter of time until the Earth and all the living things on it are gone...
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