Our planet Earth
is 4,600 million years old
If we condense this inconceivable timespan into an
understandable concept, we can liken the Earth to a person of forty-six years
of age.
Nothing is known about the first seven years of this person's life
and, whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span, we know
that only at the age of forty-two did the Earth begin to flower.
Dinosaurs and the great reptiles did not appear until one year ago,
when the planet was forty-five. Mammals arrived only eight months ago; in the
middle of last week man-like apes evolved into ape-like men and at the weekend
the last ice age enveloped the Earth.
Modern man has been around for four hours.
During the last hour man discovered agriculture.
The Industrial Revolution began just a minute ago.
During those sixty seconds of biological time,
modern man
has made a rubbish tip of paradise.
He has multiplied his numbers to plague proportions, caused the
extinction of hundreds of species of animals, ransacked the planet for fuels
and now stands like a brutish infant, gloating over his meteoric rise to
ascendancy, on the brink of the final mass extinction and effectively
destroying the oasis of life in the solar system.
(Reproduced by kind permission of
Greenpeace)
Frightening, isn't it?
Do we simply accept the fate of our planet,
or are we in a
position to do something about it?
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What can you do?
No........ what can we do'? ...........
How can our local community help
to save this planet?
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