Facts and figures

People, animals, plants, trees, flowers, and all other species live together at the same planet. The way humans use the earth has a great impact on the fossil sources of the earth, and on the nature and fauna that is living on this planet, too. Humans dominate earth to make their lives as simple and perfect as possible. Of course, this has a lot of effects. Animals who are being killed and threatened with extension, flora which is disappearing forever, ice caps that are melting, the ozone layer which is dissolving, etc.
These effects have a impact on the human life, too. We know that our fossil energy sources are getting exhausted, we know that our ground, water and air is being more and more polluted, we know that the rainforests and green parts in the world are getting smaller and smaller.
This is the point where we have to do something!

Down here are some facts and figures about pollution:

• Garbage takes a long time to demolish:
  

  Piece of paper	2 to 4 weeks
  Banana leaf	3 to 5 weeks
  Cotton rag	1 to 5 months
  String bag	1 year
  Cigarette butt	2 to 5 year
  Aluminium can	200 to 400 year
  Plastic	400 year
  Glass	More then one million year

• Plastic bags: in every shop you come in Thailand, and with everything you buy, you will get a plastic bag. These bags are terrible for nature. As you can see in the scheme above, plastic takes about 400 years to demolish. When they dwarl around in nature, they kill animals. Animals can see them as food and it can get stuck inside their stomach. They will choke, and die a horrible dead. It happens a lot to see animals and birds.

• Normal bulbs use 40 KW per hour. Energy Saving light bulbs use 7 KW per hour

• People live from the ground. Plants we eat grow on it. The cow who gives us milk eat grass. Grass also grows on the ground. We must be very carefully with the ground. If we poison it, we will poison the plants and grass too. By eating this plants and vegetables, and by drinking milk, we will poison ourselves.

• Every 2 seconds there is disappearing a forest the size of a football field by cutting woods. At this way, people loose their houses and plants and animals are being threat with extinction.

• 80% of the oldest forest is destroyed by the hunger of the rich country's longing for wood and paper. Trees from hundred and hundred years old are being cut down like they are nothing and being transformed into carpet wood and triplex.

• A whale was being found to have one of its three stomachs partially blocked by: 1. a piece of balloon, 2. a small shredded piece of dark plastic garbage bag, 3. a clear plastic wrapper, the size of a cigarette pack. Once removed, the whale got better and could be released into the wild. Most animals are not so lucky.

• Cigarette butts are similar to the normal food of a sea turtle. This is why they eat them, choke and die.

• Almost 4 million children die each year of acute respiratory infections, linked with indoor air pollution (especially smoky cooking fuels) and outdoor air pollution (especially form industrialisation). Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease closely tied to environmental conditions, alone claims to1 to 3 million lives a year, most of them children.

• Another 2.5 million children die each year of diarrhoeal diseases, related to environmental conditions. Cholera, long vanquished from Latin America, resurged in 1991 due to a combination of environmental and social factors, claiming some 11.000 lives and causing an economic impact of an estimated US200 million in Peru alone. In developing nations, there may be as many as 3.5 million to 5 million acute pesticide poisonings per year due to the lack of protection during application, with millions more exposed to lower but still dangerous levels.