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When did life originate on Earth? 4 billion years ago


When did homo sapiens originate? 2 hundred thousand years ago
What was our planet like originally? Was no more than a chaos of fire
How did the ocean get salty? The river torn minerals from the rocks
What is shared by every life-form on our planet?
What provides the Earths red, black, blue, and yellow? Archaebacteria
What organism were the first that had the capacity to turn to the sun to
capture its energy? Blue green algae
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How did these organisms change the destiny of our planet? They
transformed its atmosphere
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What happened to the carbon that poisoned the atmosphere? The
carbon is still here imprisonment in the Earths crust
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How much time can be read in the walls of Colorados Grand Canyon?
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How did the organisms grow their shells? By tapping into carbon from the
atmosphere
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What happened to the shells of the microorganisms that died? Created
strata and the carbon drained from the atmosphere and other organisms were
created
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What did plant life finally do? Bring oxygen to the atmosphere
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What is the Earths water cycle? A process of constant renewal
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What happens when water freezes? Protects the underwater life from
dying
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Coral is the mutualistic relationship between what two organisms? Algae
and chells
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Where is and how big is the Great Barrier Reef? XXX
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In a chain of species, why are trees a pinnacle species? A perfect living
sculputure because they describe gravity.
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Why are trees so important for the formation of soils? It captures light
energy
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Soils are the factory of minerals .
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How is soil a world of incessant activity? Feeding, digging and
transforming. They make the fertile layer.
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What is meant by the phrase that Every species has a role to play?
Every species has a job, none of them are harmful and they all have their
own place.
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The
was, an invention that opened up new horizons and turned
humans into navigators.
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The first 1/4
grew up less than 6000 years ago.
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How did towns change humanitys nature as well as its destiny? They
stopped hunting, fishing and growing what they eat.
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Agriculture was humans first great revolution that was developed barely
10,000
years ago.
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The uncertainty of agriculture resulted in the first surpluses and gave birth
to cities and civilizations.

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Humans harnessed the energy of animal species and plant life, from
which they at last extracted the
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The principal daily concern of all humans is to feed ourselves .
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What is the pure energy of the sun-captured over millions of years by
millions of plants more than a hundred million years ago? Apocatly sunlight:
OIL
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Today, over half of the worlds 7 billion inhabitants live in cities.
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They produce enough grain to feed 2 billion people. But most of that grain
is used to feed livestock or biofuels .
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Agriculture accounts for
70
% of humanitys water consumption.
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The result is that it takes 100 liters of water to produce one kilogram of
potatoes, 4,000 liters for one kilo for rice and 13,000 liters for one kilo of
beef.
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If LAs model were followed by all, the planet wouldnt have 9 hundred
million
vehicles, as it does today, but 5 billion
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Everywhere, machines dig, bore and rip from the Earth the pieces of stars
buried in its depths since its creation: minerals
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As a privilege of power, 80% of this mineral wealth is consumed by 20% of
the worlds population.
Before the end of this century excessive mining will have exhausted nearly all the
planets reserves.
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Before the end of this century excessive mining will have exhausted nearly
all the planets reserves.
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The ocean covers XXX
of the planet.
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The
remain a secret. They contain
of species whose
existence remains a mystery to us.
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3/4
of fishing grounds are exhausted, depleted or in danger of
being so. Most large fish have been fished out of existence since they have
no time to reproduce
. Fish is the staple diet of one in five humans.
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5 million
humans live in the worlds desert lands, more than the
combined population of Europe
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What is fossil water? Which is accumulated underground when it rains
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Across the planet, one major river in 10 no longer flows into the sea for
several months of the year.
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These wetlands are crucial to all life on Earth. They represent 6 percent
of the planet.
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What are wetlands? Indispensable environments that regulate the water
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Trees provide a habitat for 3/4 of the planets biodiversity-that is to say, of


all life on Earth.
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Why is this biodiversity important? We all depend on it. Our bodies need it.
Our cells talk the same language with nature.
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What are mangrove forests and why are they important? Provide food for
poultry??
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What happens when the rain forest burn?

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How long did it take Borneos vast primary forest to totally disappear? 10
years
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On the hills of Haiti, only 2 percent of the forests are left.
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What is the story of the Rapa Nui, the inhabitants of the Easter Island?
Rapa Nui exploited all their resources and they disappeared. They
experienced famine and many didnt survive.
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One human being in 6 now lives in a precarious, unhealthy, overpopulated
environment, without access to daily necessities, such as water, sanitation or
electricity. Hunger is spreading once more. It affects nearly 1 million people.
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Greenlands ice contains 20
% of the freshwater of the whole
planet. When it melts, sea levels will rise by nearly 7
meters.
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Coral reefs, for example, are extremely sensitive to the slightest change in
water temperature.
percent have disappeared.
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11 of the 15 biggest cities stand on a coastline or river estuary. As the
seas rise, salt will invade the water table, depriving inhabitants of drinking
water.
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What will happen when the glaciers in the Himalayas recede? 2 billion
people depend on it for drinking water and for their crop farming.
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Droughts are occurring all over the planet. In Australia, half of farmland
is already affected.
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The permafrost is the ground that is constantly frozen. What will happen
when it melts? The methane released will cause the Greenhouse effect to
raise out of control
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The world spends 12
times more on military expenditures than on aid
to developing countries.
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5,000 people a day die because of dirty drinking water
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1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water
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Nearly 1 billion people are going hungry
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Over 50% of grain traded around the world is used for animal feed or bio
fuels
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40% of arable land has suffered long-term damage
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One mammal in 4 , one bird in 8
, one amphibian in 3
are threatened with extinction
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Species are dying out at a rhythm 1000 times faster than the natural rate
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3/4 of fishing grounds are exhausted, depleted or in dangerous decline
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There may be at least 200 million climate refugees by 2050
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In Bangladesh, a man thought the unthinkable and founded a bank that
lends only to the poor. In barely 30
years, it has changed the lives of
150 million
people around the world.
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Gabon is one of the worlds leading producers of wood. What is selective
logging? No more than one tree is cut down
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I have seen houses producing their own energy. 5,000
people live
in the worlds first ever eco-friendly district in Germany
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USA
, China
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and
are the biggest
investors in renewable energy. They have already created over
jobs.

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In
hour, the sun gives the Earth the same amount of energy as
that consumed by all humanity in
year. As long as the Earth exists,
the suns energy will be inexhaustible.

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