Acting to Save Mother Earth
Everday we hear more bad news about our planet. Reports tell us that wildlife and forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Newscasts give the latest wo
rd on how quickly earth is losing its protective shirld and warming up. Newspapers lament the pollution of our air, water, and soil. What can we do in the face of such widespread gloom?
In fact, we do not have to feel helpless. We can each learn pra
ctical ways to better our environment.
For example, saving and recycling newspapers has a number of positive results. First, recycling newspaper saves trees. The average Ame
rican consumes about 120 pounds of newsprint a ye
ar-enough to use up one tree. That means close to 250 million trees each year are destroyed for paper in this country alone. If we recycled only on
e-tenth of our newpaper, we would save
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