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Climate Change: Earth Day

Today is Earth Day, and there are numerous blog posts and news items that are worth reading about.

Among all these things, to honor Earth Day, I just wanted to point out these great set of images by Stuart Franklin on the Times website: “In the Time of Trees” which is a short set of photos of trees.

Also, as part of Earth Day: some semi-randomly chosen facts to consider:

80% - percent decrease in U.S. global warming pollution required by 2050 to prevent the worst consequences of global warming.

It takes 5,000 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat (so 1 pound of meat uses the equivalent water of taking a 5-7 minute shower every day for a year)

Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every 3 months

— michael | April 22, 2008 02:44 PM | Something to think about