| WHO WILL SAVE OUR PLANET EARTH | | | | alternative - coal. |
| | | | * Discover new solutions for the disposal of |
| The U.S. Russia and other developed countries | | | | wastes of all kind, including chemical residues from |
| spend tremendous amounts of money in recent | | | | industry and garbage. |
| years for the study of the planets in the solar | | | | * Bring to maximal efficiency water consumption, |
| system and beyond. These expenses seem | | | | for home, industry and agriculture. |
| superfluous considering the imminent dangers | | | | * Stop the burning of the Amazon rain forests |
| facing civilization from pollution, intensive | | | | and the destruction of rare species. |
| exploitation of the limited natural resources and | | | | * Find ways of implementing birth control in |
| overpopulation. | | | | overpopulated countries. |
| The most expensive Hubble Space Telescope and | | | | How can this be done |
| the hipper expensive manned spaceships may | | | | To do so, huge amounts of money are needed |
| provide us with new information on the Universe. | | | | for research and development, as well as for the |
| These and similar sophisticated means, however, | | | | compensation of underdeveloped countries for |
| will not help us find the answers to the Big | | | | various actions they may have to take. In |
| question of our time: How Long Will Civilization | | | | addition, countries all over the world will have to |
| Survive if Destruction of the Planet's Environment | | | | issue and enforce strict laws for the protection of |
| goes on? | | | | the environment. |
| According to environmental scientists, life on our | | | | The question is, how can such acquiescence be |
| small but perhaps unique planet Earth may come | | | | achieved among so many different nations and |
| to an end in the next 70-80 years. They attribute | | | | interests? How can laws and restrictions be |
| this danger to the tremendous technological | | | | forced on people whose primary interest is |
| development, which upsets nature's equilibrium and | | | | personal survival - and what is the way to |
| the dramatic growth of human population. The | | | | convince industries and farmers to invest fortunes |
| factors that endanger life on earth are mainly: | | | | in expensive devices for protecting the |
| 1. Contamination of the soil and water resources | | | | environment? |
| by monstrous amounts of industrial and home | | | | The only way to achieve these aims is by |
| garbage, as well as by pesticides and chemical | | | | reaching a worldwide consensus for a global |
| fertilizers used intensively in modern agriculture. | | | | effective action towards the common goal of |
| 2. Damage to the protective ozone layer by | | | | saving civilization and the planet. There is a need |
| mainly CFC (Chloro-Fluoro-Carbon) gases. | | | | for combined efforts of all nations through |
| 3. Green House Effect, caused by the excess, in | | | | understanding and agreement, as well as a central |
| the atmosphere, of carbon dioxide (CO2) and | | | | authority to initiate and control such an operation. |
| other gases generated by industry, agriculture, | | | | Conditions for such an outcome are ripe today |
| automobiles and electric power plants. | | | | more than ever before, because of the growing |
| 4. Acid Rain, caused by the release by industrial | | | | influence of the U.S. in the world and the |
| plants and vehicles of significant quantities of | | | | weakening animosity between East and West. |
| pollutants into the air. | | | | Is it really going to happen? |
| 5. The release of poisonous gases to the | | | | Will governments consent to giving up their power |
| atmosphere and the destruction of rare species | | | | and obeying a central authority? Will politicians |
| of plants and animals by burning of forests | | | | relinquish their ambitious struggle for position and |
| throughout the world, especially the rain forests. | | | | influence and adopt responsibility for the future of |
| 6. Dramatic growth of human population, which | | | | the world? I believe they will, but only through the |
| constitute perhaps the most scaring factor of all. | | | | demand and pressure of the masses on |
| Human population, consisting today of almost 7 | | | | governments and parliaments. Such action must |
| billion people, compared with only 2 billion in 1930, | | | | be taken everywhere, through the establishment |
| may grow in about 40 years to the scaring | | | | of national associations for the protection of the |
| number of 10 billion. The many millions born every | | | | planet. |
| year must fight for their survival. They therefore | | | | Some people rightly ask, why should we worry |
| use water resources to the limit, exploit the | | | | about something that may happen in perhaps |
| scarce natural resources and burn forests for fuel | | | | another 70-80 years. Are we the planet's or the |
| and for agricultural cultivation. | | | | civilization's keepers? - and who can really be sure |
| What should we do? | | | | that this prophecy of doom will actually happen? |
| To save our planet the world must take | | | | No one has precise answers to these questions. |
| immediate action to protect the environment, like: | | | | But what if the warnings are real and civilization - |
| * Reduce air pollution from industry, power plants | | | | God's wonderful creation which took 3,5 billion |
| and vehicles. | | | | years of evolution to develop - disappears |
| * Decrease the use of pesticides by researching | | | | forever? Can we jeopardize the future of our |
| safer ways of controlling plant diseases and pests, | | | | children and grandchildren? We are here now, and |
| like biological control. | | | | it is our prime task and duty to find the answers |
| * Find clean and more efficient energy sources to | | | | and solutions for the well-being of the coming |
| replace dangerous petroleum and its terrible | | | | generations. |