22nd of April 2021 was Earth Day and the 51st edition at that.
The theme of the day being “Restore Our Earth”, it is therefore only prudent at this hour to bring to surface the tenacity, of us humanoids or Bi-pedals, with which we abuse Mother Earth or our own Mother.
Here are some fact checks on it’s enormity.
- We generate and throw 300 million tonnes of plastic waste per year on her sacred face.
- We emit into the atmosphere 40 billion tonnes of CO2 gases per year.
- We destroy one hector evergreen forest every second of the day.
- 140 species of plants and other living organisms are pack off to extinction every year by us.
- We elevate the ocean levels by 3.6mm every year.
- 0.01 degrees C of temperature we help to increase every year.
Our exemplary contributions as the loving children of mother Earth, continue with no end in sight. Us homosapiens are some special people indeed!