The Decline of Our World -- Blog Action Day
Monday, October 15, 2007 - 12:05pm
Oct. 15th has been dubbed Blog Action Day, which means that bloggers worldwide are supposed to unite and take action by blogging about the environment today. No prob…
We’re all aware, I think, of our changing Earth. But it continually alarms me to here how much and how fast things have been changing lately. Here’re a few things I’ve recently read:
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- Melting Ice Caps — In the last thirty years, the Northern Ice Cap spanned from Canada to Finland. Today that has declined by 20%. Scientists predict extinction of the polar bear due to loss of habitat.
- Rising Sea Levels — With the decline of the polar ice caps (north and south), oceans are raising at an ever faster rate. Coastal areas like Florida, New York City, Denmark and others would be reclaimed by the sea.
