| Global Warming has become a huge issue these days. | | | | 2000 years, to build our cities, homes, and farms. |
| What most people do not realize is that global | | | | Now is the time to do something about it and every |
| warming and cooling is a cycle that the earth has | | | | tree counts, here are some interesting facts and |
| gone through for millions of years. Right now, the | | | | figures:oTrees provide shade and shelter, reducing |
| earth is in its warming phase and us humans are | | | | yearly heating and cooling costs by 2 billion dollars.oIn |
| accelerating that phase to a pace that the earth may | | | | one year, a single tree can absorb as much carbon as |
| not be able to cope with. In fact the earth is | | | | is produced by a car driving 26,000 miles.oIn 50 years |
| warming faster than it ever has in the past, due to | | | | one tree recycles more than $37,000 worth of |
| human emissions of carbon dioxide into the | | | | water, provides $31,000 worth of erosion control, |
| atmosphere. | | | | $62,000 worth of air pollution control, and produces |
| What can we do? There are all kinds of things; | | | | $37,000 worth of oxygen.oBy cooling the air and |
| creating new technology that reduces the output of | | | | ground around them, the shade from trees helps cool |
| carbon dioxide into the atmosphere seems to be all | | | | the Earth's temperature.oOne person causes about |
| the hype. Using wind energy, solar panels, hybrid cars, | | | | 10 tons of carbon dioxide to be emitted a year. One |
| water power, but there is a simpler, easier, low cost | | | | tree removes about 1 ton of CO2 per year. So, |
| solution that is often overlooked, Planting Trees. | | | | planting 10 trees per person will remove each that |
| Imagine how many trees humans have removed | | | | person's carbon debt for the year. |
| from the Earth, or just in the US alone, over the past | | | | |