COPD & Emphysema Support Group

DO YOU – KNOW THAT

Environmental Pollution – Poses a bigger threat to our existence than international terrorism?

“BE WORRIED BE VERY WORRIED.

Time Magazine Apr. 3, 2006

No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you've heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out; suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us”; unquote.

POLLUTION IS A LIFE AND DEATH ISSUE

Airports fail air pollution test

High cancer risk from diesel exhaust concentrations

Power station named in 'dirty 30’

River pollution kills thousands of fish

Oily fish can contain pollutants

Food movement 'harms environment'

Rural homes 'the most polluting'

Coasts and sea life 'threatened’

POLLUTION 'HITS RURAL POOR HARDEST

Did you know that over 70% of our planet is water, yet only 0?0008% is fit for human consumption?

Every fifteen seconds a child dies from drinking dirty water.

That is 4 per minute or 240 per hour or 5,760 per day or 40,320 per week or 2,096,640 per year.
Posted on 07/23/08, 04:07 am