IT WILL GET WORSE IF WE DO NOT ACT NOW TO SAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL MOTHER EARTH

Unless we rapidly improve our forest cover  we will face a WORLD WIDE  disaster.
Planting trees is  an excellent way  to make a positive difference to the environment. They're also a great way to experience the region's parks —  Encouraging people to join planting days in parks that they haven't visited before, and make the most of a rewarding family day out.

Planting a will give campers and picnickers shade and shelter. It will also stabilize the coastal edge and protect and enhance the coastal forest remnants.
New trees are planted to maintain and enhance biodiversity, and to protect park life including native plants, birds, fish and insects, and their support systems and food supplies.
Tree planting also goes a long way towards nursing our damaged ecosystems back to health. It speeds up natural regeneration, reduces flooding and erosion, and improves water quality in our rivers and beaches, making them safe for swimming.
Coastal water degradation is from rapid population growth, from chemicals used in agriculture, from raw and poorly treated sewage input, from heavy metals and oil product pollution.
persistent organic pollutants-chemical substances that persist in the environment, are increasingly being absorbed.

These chemicals that bio accumulate through the food web, now show in the once pristine Arctic waters.
The disposal of plastic in the seas and oceans has become a serious problem for wildlife.
Excess nitrogen fertilizer flushed into the gulf, and a reduction of the Mississippi basin floodplains, has resulted in the Gulf of Mexico becoming one of the largest dead zones on the planet.
The wetlands once acted as a buffer to storms coming in from the sea but Louisiana has lost about a half million acres of coast to erosion since 1930.
The lost wetlands had been built by the Mississippi River, which is now corralled by levees and is bringing little replacement sediment to the Gulf mouth.
Even before Katrina the City of New Orleans and Louisiana needed billions of dollars to help restore coastal wetlands.
No longer having the sediment wetlands to act as a buffer

In Europe at least one-third of the sewage flowing into the Black Sea, the Balkans, the Carpathian basin, remains unprocessed.
The Sea of Azov and the heavily polluted Bosporus no longer have fish Mackerel,  green fish, the most commonly caught fish that used to swim in these waters, have become non-existent.
Rejections of scientific advice, both in reducing pollution, and on reducing catches to safeguard fish stocks, has resulted in Europe's stocks of fish being depleted on a disastrous

The number of "dead zones" in the world's oceans may have increased by a third in just two years, threatening fish stocks and the people who depend on them,
Fertilizers, sewage, fossil fuel burning and other pollutants have led to a doubling in the number of oxygen-deficient coastal areas every decade since the 1960's.
Now experts estimate there are 200 so-called ocean dead zones, compared with 150 two years ago.
The climate is changing so quickly that coral reefs don't keep up ... the loss of that ecosystem would be tremendous."

KENYA — 22 February, 2005
Nearly five years ago, the government imposed a ban on logging in order to curb deforestation and to conserve the country's major water catchment areas. "

If the stratosphere will continue to cool, or if ozone levels will return to levels of the past, or if the increasing stress of unstable monsoons and floods, of drought bowls, of vast wind forces, will continue in their exaggerated patterns.Disaster is a reality we expect.
The huge expanse of western Siberia is thawing for the first time since its formation, 11,000 years ago.
This could potentially act as a tipping point, causing global warming to snowball, scientists fear.
More than 90% of the original national forest cover has now been lost.
The situation is an "ecological landslide that is probably irreversible and is undoubtedly connected to climatic warming,"
The whole western Siberian sub-Arctic region has started to thaw,  this "has happened in the last three or four years".
The melting glaciers will ultimately trigger more droughts, expand desertification and increase sand storms."

The water running off the plateau is increasing soil erosion and so allowing the deserts to spread. Sandstorms, blowing in from the degraded land, are already plaguing the country.
Perhaps worst of all, the melting threatens to disrupt water supplies over much of Asia.
Many of the continent's greatest rivers — including the Yangtze, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Mekong and the Yellow River — rise on the plateau.
In China alone, 300 million people depend on water from the glaciers for their survival. Yet the plateau is drying up, threatening to escalate an already dire situation across the country

Biomass burning. Lightning and human torching causes fire in forests, in grasslands, on savannas and on agricultural lands.   Studies by scientists indicate the doubling of the moisture content in the stratosphere over the last 50 years has been caused, at least in part, by the increase in biomass burning. Water vapor shifts from the troposphere into the stratosphere, and the higher humidity helps in the destruction of the ozone layer.Catalysis takes place.  
With climate change making the forests drier, the cutting of forests, combined with lightning, is allowing huge areas to become ignited.
With the opening of forests, for every acre of forest destroyed, at least one more acre burns in ground fire. Over the last few decades, millions of hectares of trees have been lost by lightning causes, extreme weather conditions, and by human torching.
restoration of forested areas to take care of the demand is far from adequate.

Major players in the global development race have used public money to harvest forests, especially the tropical forests that remain, and have done so with minimal or no environmental, freedom-of-information or human rights policies. Little has been done to restore the forests.

when the environment is destroyed, plundered or mismanaged, we undermine our quality of life and that of future generations.
One way of cleaning up after ourselves would be to throw less away, designing products to be recycled or even just to last longer.
Previous generations worked on the assumption that discarding our waste was a proper way to be rid of it, so we used to dump nuclear materials and other potential hazards at sea, confident they would be dispersed in the depths. We now think that is too risky

Ask not for whom the bell tolls — it tolls for thee, and for me


GOD BLESS THE INTERNET FOR THIS VALUABLE INFORMATION

katrina

Katrina and Rita in a row over the Gulf of Mexico is an unprecedented and troubling occurrence.

But for most tropical meteorologists the truly astonishing "storm of the decade" took place in March 2004.

Hurricane Catarina — so named because it made landfall in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina — was the first recorded south Atlantic hurricane in history.

Textbook orthodoxy had long excluded the possibility of such an event; sea temperatures, experts claimed, were too low and wind shear too powerful to allow tropical depressions to evolve into cyclones south of the Atlantic Equator.

DONT LAUGH AT SOME ONES SHORT COMMINGS

Don't Laugh At Me
(Allen Shamblin/Steve Seskin)
I'm a little boy with glasses
The one they call the geek
A little girl who never smiles
'Cause I've got braces on my teeth
And I know how it feels
To cry myself to sleep
I'm that kid on every playground
Who's always chosen last
A single teenage mother
Tryin' to overcome my past
You don't have to be my friend
But is it too much to ask
Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me
I'm the cripple on the corner
You've passed me on the street
And I wouldn't be out here beggin'
If I had enough to eat
And don't think I don't notice
That our eyes never meet
I lost my wife and little boy when
Someone cross that yellow line
The day we laid them in the ground
Is the day I lost my mind
And right now I'm down to holdin'
This little cardboard sign...so
Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me
I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm short, I'm tall
I'm deaf, I'm blind, hey, aren't we all
Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

HEAL THE WORLD

HEAL THE WORLD.
Have we really givn our best to heal the world. or are we just talking. and singing , and talking and singing all those who have plenty, please give what ever you can, If you feed one hungry person and put clothes on him GOD WILL BLESS YOU.The starving children of the world are still waiting for you and for me

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"Heal The World"

There's A Place In Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try You'll Find
There's No Need To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow
There Are Ways To Get There
If You Care Enough For The Living
Make A Little Space Make A Better Place...

Heal The World Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying If You Care Enough
For The Living Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving if We Try
We Shall SeeIn This Bliss
We Cannot Fee lFear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And Start Living

Then It Feels That Always Love's Enough For
Us Growing So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...

And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep strangling Life
Wound This Earth Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My HeartI Feel You Are All My Brothers
Create A World With No Fear
Together We'll Cry Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn Their Swords
Into Plowshares
We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough For The Living
Make A Little Space To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better PlaceFor You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough For The Living
Make A Better Place for You And For Me
For You And For Me
god bless all you givers,
cluelessnan

REMEMBERING MICHAEL JACKSON 51ST BIRTHDAY

Like a comet
Blazing across the evening sky
Gone Too Soon
Like a rainbow
Fading in a twinkling eye
Gone Too Soon
Shiny and sparkly and sendingly by in one day
Gone one night
Like the losses in night
On a cloudy afternoon
Gone Too Soon
Like a castle
Built upon a sandy beach
Gone Too Soon
Like a bird flock
That is just beyond your reach
Gone Too Soon
Born to amuse
To aspire, DELIGHT in one day
Gone one night
Ooohh
Like a sunset day from the raising woooo
Gone Too Soon
Gone Too Soon

A BRIEF HISTORY ( TAKEN FROM THE INTERNET)

MANY FACES OF MICHAEL JACKSON

Magical Child


Once there was a child and he was free
Deep inside, he felt the laughter
The mirth and play of nature's glee
Beauty, love was all he'd see

He knew his power was the power of God
He was so sure, they considered him odd
This power of innocence, of compassion, of light
Threatened the priests and created a fight
In endless ways they sought to dismantle
This mysteroius force which they could not handle

In endless ways they tried to destroy
His simple trust, his boundless joy
His invincible armor was a shield of bliss
Nothing could touch it, no venom, no hiss

The child remained in a state of grace
He wasn't confined in time or place
In Technicolor dreams, he frolicked and played
While acting his part, in Eternity he stayed

Soothsayers came and fortunes were told
Some were vehement, others were bold
In denouncing this child, this perplexing creature
With the rest of the world he shared no feature
IS he real?He is so strange
His unpredictable nature knows no range
He puzzles us so, is he straight?
What's his destiny?What's his fate?

And while they whispered and conspired
Through endless rumors to get him tired
To kill his wonder, trample him near
Burn his courage, fuel his fear
The child remained just simpel, sincere

All he wanted was the mountain high
Color the clouds, paint the sky
Beyond these boundaries, he wanted to fly
In nature's scheme, never to die

Don't stop this child, he's the father of man
Don't cross his way, he's part of the plan
I am that child, but so are you
You've just forgotten, just lost the clue

Inside your heart sits a Seer
Between his thoughts, he can hear
A melody simple but wondrously clear
The music of life, so precious, so dear

If you could for one moment know
This spark of creation, this exquisite glow
You would come and dance with me
Kindle this fire so we could see
All the children of the Earth
Wave their magic and give new birth
To a world of freedom with no pain
A world of joy, much more sane

Deep inside, you know it's true
Just find that child, it's hiding in you

How I Make Music

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I
just step into it.It's like stepping into a river and
joining the flow. Every moment in the river has
it's song. So I stay in the moment and listen.
What I hear is never the same. A walk
through the woods brings a light, crackling
song:Leaves rustle in the wind, birds chatter and
Squirrels scold, twigs crunch underfoot, and
the beat of my heart holds it all together. When
you join the flow, the music is inside and outside,
and both are the same. As long as I can listen to
the moment, I'll always have music..