Paper Bags
Hello,
I just heard this statistic. I am trying to find out the source to verify it. In any case, it calls out for awareness of what is happening to our environment. "Our" meaning that what we're seeing is a reflection of the human condition and that makes us responsible individually as well as collectively.
If one family in the US used one less paper bag per year it would save 20,000 acres of forest.
So use cloth bags and bring your own containers. Look into how much water and land is being used to produce meat and things that balance meat, like vineyards.
Water is being diverted from the Colorado River to keep the acquifer under Phoenix filled in case of emergency. Pretty soon the fresh water isn't going to reach the ocean. Now what? The oceans become saltier, the land is shut off from the excange.
Approximately 5% of land in the US is occupied. What happens to the rest?
It's up to each one of us. Don't use that paper bag. Pass it along.
Bill
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