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Some Trivia About about the Environment:

If you could drive that distance in a car at 60 miles (96 km) per hour, it would take you 177 years of nonstop driving to get to the sun.
Some bats can eat 500 mosquitoes every hour.
Pitohuis birds, which live only in New Guinea, have poison in their skin and feathers.
Cockroaches can go without eating for three months, as long as they have water.
Cockroaches can eat many different foods, including your peanut butter sandwich,your fingernail clippings, and especially your math book (they like the glue in the binding).
The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich, which can grow up to nine feet tall.
One kind of bamboo can grow almost three feet (1 m) in one day.
The smallest tree in the world is the dwarf willow. In some places, it grows only two inches (5 cm) tall.

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History
Air pollution was common in large towns long before the industrial revolution. The pollution came from dust, wood smoke, tanneries, animal manure and other things.

Water pollution was less severe in some civilizations. Israeli and Hindu cities tended to have less water pollution due to strict religious codes about cleanliness. On the other hand, ancient Rome was notorious for sewage-filled streets.

Timbering stripped the forests of Babylon, Greece, Phonecia (Lebanon) and Italy with the rise of civilization. The wood energy crisis led Greeks to use passive solar energy by orienting their cities and houses toward the sun. Romans made some use of solar energy but imported wood for timber and fuel from as far away as the Black Sea. Both Greeks and Romans kept sacred groves of trees from being timbered.

Soil conservation was not widely practiced in the Mediterranian, but cultures in China, India and Peru understood the long term impact of soil erosion and tried to prevent it.

Lead poisoning was common among upper class Romans who used lead-sweetened wine and grape pulp sweetened with "sugar of lead" as a condiment.

Numbers
It is estimated that three million people indirectly die of respiratory and cardiovascular disease worldwide, many of which cases are linked to air quality and smog. Many of these mortalities are largely attributable to indoor air pollution. In the U.S. between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths per year are linked to air pollution, which exceeds the number deaths caused by automobile accidents. Research published in 2005 suggests that 310,000 Europeans die from air pollution annually. Direct causes of air pollution related deaths include aggravated asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, lung and heart diseases, and other respiratory allergies. The US EPA estimates that a proposed set of changes in diesel engine technology (Tier 2) could result in 12,000 fewer premature mortalities, 15,000 fewer heart attacks, 6000 fewer emergency room visits by children with asthma, and 8900 fewer respiratory-related hospital admissions each year in the United States.
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