Why Conserve

* Waste paper is America’s single largest export by weight. AIGA: Print Design and Environmental Responsibility

"The Indo-Pacific region, home to 75 percent of the world's coral reefs, has lost nearly 600 square miles of reef each year since the late 1960s."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6936634.stm

"We have already lost half of the world's reef-building corals," says team lead John Bruno.

"We can do a far better job of developing technologies and implementing smart policies that will offset climate change."

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In Massachusetts approximately 40 acres of open space habitat is lost to development every day.

"Temperatures are estimated to rise from 6 - 10 degrees and precipitation will increase from 10 to 30% in New England over the next 100 years. This will be the greatest change in climate over the past 10,000 years and the New England climate will resemble that of present day Virginia to Georgia.

Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824-3525

New England Regional Assesment UCS also published a similar report

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Global warming may cost the world as much as $9.6 trillion by the next century because of the effects of famine, rising sea levels, storms and other environmental damage, a study for the U.K. government indicates. Climate Change May Cost World $9.6 Trillion, U.K. Report Says

"Climate change is a global challenge that demands a global response. Yet there are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve... To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience." Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, quoted in the L.A. Times

"The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences." Al Gore

"The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming." Arnold Schwarzenegger