Persuasive Essay On Save The Earth

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INTRODUCTION Earth is one of the amazing creation that is created by God. Its beautifulness has sustained everything living on it for millions of years. Its environments are like an open book. Many resources have been discovered by researching. Its beautifulness should be cared and preserved by human as the Earth is the place where we live. There are some people that are very care about our environment and some are not. These minorities’ awareness are the reason why our environment can still be preserved until today; but still there cannot prevent the worse from coming. When we talk of environment, it involves everything around us, not just the weather. It includes all the animals, plants and the human beings living in this planet. Here are some facts about our environment that we need to …show more content…

• Aluminum can be recycled continuously, as in forever. Recycling 1 aluminum can save enough energy to run our TVs for at least 3 hours. 80 trillion aluminum cans are used by humans every year. • American companies alone use enough Paper to encircle the Earth 3x! (It’s a good thing that businesses are moving towards going paperless) • We can save 75,000 trees if we recycled the paper used on the daily run of the New York Times alone. • When you throw plastic bags and other plastic materials in the ocean, it kills as many as 1 million sea creatures annually. • A glass bottle made in our time will take more than 4,000 years to decompose. • Only 1% of our planet’s water supply can be used. 97% is ocean water and 2% is frozen solid in the Arctic, for now. • Our planet gains inhabitants numbering to 77 million people a year. • An estimated 50,000 species inhabiting our tropical forests become extinct annually. That’s an average of 137 species a day. • Rainforests are cut down at a rate of 100 acres per minute. • The world’s oldest trees are more than 4,600 years old. • Landfills are composed of 35% packaging

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