When I was in elementary school, I learned about deforestation. I got the idea that we were losing all the trees in the world, and I love trees! So I decided then and there that I would have a tree of my very own. I'd put a fence around it so nobody could ever cut down "the last tree in the world."Obviously, I had not yet learned that, without lots of trees, I wouldn't be there to save the last tree. Without trees, the world would be filled with carbon dioxide, lacking the oxygen I would need to breathe, to live. So now that I'm an adult, I want to save not one, but a world-full of trees. (Is "world-full" a word?) We need trees! While we breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, trees take in carbon dioxide and "exhale" oxygen. Pretty good system, huh? Your turn. What sparked your interest?
By the way, this post is part of Blog Action Day. There are more than 8,583 blogs in 148 countries taking part in this today, each posting something about climate change.
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Lovely post, lovely photo. By the way, I arrived here via the Blog Action Day website list of participants. There are a lot of us!
I got interested in dust storms (which I have written about for my Blog Action Day post) back when I was taking an environmental science class and, at the same time, reading aloud a book about the Dust Bowl (Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse) to the children in my school library.
The subject became even more real to me when I retired and we moved to eastern New Mexico to find that we still have some dust bowl conditions out here!
Thanks again for taking part in this day of action.
Thanks for dropping by, Clairz, and for taking part in this event yourself.
This evening the overall numbers have grown:
11,411 blogs in 155 countries
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