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• Clean our Air
• Clean our Water (Oceans, Rivers, Wetlands…)
• Protect Wild & Marine Animals
• Protect Wildlife & Endangered Animals
• Save our Forests (Rainforests, Redwoods…)
• Stop Global Warming

Signs of Need (50 Ways to Save the Earth)

• Cars, trucks, and buses spew more than 12 billion pounds of cancer causing air pollution each year.

• According to the National Academy of Science, at least 50 million acres of rainforest are lost every year.

• We have increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary global warming gas, in our atmosphere by 30 percent in the past 100 years.

• Agricultural runoff has killed millions of fish and is the main reason why 60% of America's rivers and streams are "impaired."

• At present rates of extinction, as much as 20 percent of the world's species could be gone in the next 30 years.

Signs of Hope

• IT'S A START: While the Clean Water Act has fundamentally improved the quality of our nation's waters, polluted runoff from agriculture, sewage treatment facilities, and urban storm water continue to threaten our nation's water quality.

• ENDANGERED SPECIES: Since the Endangered Species Act was enacted in 1973, we have saved many species from extinction, including the bald eagle, the lady slipper orchid, humpback whale, and many other animals and plants. (But we are still losing species at a rate not seen since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.)

• CLEAN AIR: Since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970, air quality has improved in many regions of our country.

• RECYCLING: Since 1990, Americans have cut in half their garbage that can't be recycled.

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