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WE ARE IN A MAJOR CRISIS! Birth defects Drought Death Water Shortage Hunger Birth Defects Drought Death Water Shortage Hunger Birth Defects

Measure your carbon footprint NOW Click here FACTS Every 30 seconds, a baby is born with physical defects in China, all thanks to the country's degrading environment, an official of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC) has said. Click here About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reported. Both factors contribute to the malnourishment and disease susceptibility of 3.7 billion people Click here The Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Ms Buyelwa Sonjica, today (2005), urged all the people living in South Africa to use water sparingly as the water situation in our country is serious at present and there is still reason for concern. Women who lived in regions with high carbon monoxide or fine-particle levels — pollution caused mainly by vehicle traffic — were approximately 10 to 25 percent more likely to have a preterm baby than women who lived in less polluted areas. This was especially true for women who breathed polluted air during the first trimester or during the last months and weeks of pregnancy. Click here	What will OUR planet look like by 2020? Obama: 'Smart energy policy' key to 'competitive America' Read full article	"The basic causes of our environmental troubles are complex and deeply imbedded. They include: our past tendency to emphasize quantitative growth at the expense of qualitative growth; the failure of our economy to provide full accounting for the social costs of environmental pollution; the failure to take environmental factors into account as a normal and necessary part of our planning and decision-making; the inadequacy of our institutions for dealing with problems that cut across traditional political boundaries; our dependence on conveniences, without regard for their impact on the environment; and more fundamentally, our failure to perceive the environment as a totality and to understand and to recognize the fundamental interdependence of all its parts, including man himself." Richard Nixon Quite a big mess! But all hope is not lost... for now.

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