occupies more than 70% of the earth's surface, and 80% of the planet's life lives there, yet less than 10% has been explored by humankind to date. --Deep Blue the documentaryImagine if...we spent as much time exploring and honoring life beneath the waves as we do polluting and overfishing it. There is a whole other world to explore, if we are not careful, much of it will be destroyed before we even get a chance to visit.
"a minority of the world's population (17%) consumes most of the world's resources (80%). This leaves almost 5 billion people to live on the remaining 20%. As a result, billions of people are living without basic necessities such as food, water, housing, sanitation, health etc..." --www.worldcentric.org
ReplyDeleteImagine if... Everyone in the world's 17% donated one dollar to these homeless and starving people.
"Wolves were perceived as a threat to the lives and livelihood of settlers since earliest colonial times. The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies waged war on wolves in 1631. Consequently, they were hunted and trapped relentlessly until they eventually disappeared from most of the United States"
ReplyDelete--http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/grwofs.html--
Imagine If... People and Animals Lived In Peace as One, We Could Possibly Learn From Them Instead Of Just assuming They are Mean and Vicious...
" More people have been to the abyss than to the moon."
ReplyDeleteimagine if...more people explored the ocean instead of doing nothing all day, they could find somehting new, like a cure for a disease and see the beauty of it.
"more people in the United States think that we should have more power lines than windmills so as the amount of power lines goes up the population of animals and plants goes down."
ReplyDeleteImagine if... We used more windmills and solar power than power lines.
Gina Gallant has always been an inventor. In first grade she invented a type of paper made from broccoli. (Really.) In fifth grade she invented a safer bike helmet. At age 15, she designed a new type of asphalt made from recycled plastic bottles.
ReplyDeleteImagine if.. children in school were taught to think outside the box, and use their imaginasions, just like Gina. Kids can make it happen. I would like to make an invention that really made people say "hhmmm.." What if we could make shoes out of grass?
In my house everyone that can drive,has a car.
ReplyDeleteImagine if everyone shared neighborhood cars that you pay for by hour and mileage.read more on
http://www.newdream.org
Child Abuse
ReplyDelete“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
Herbert Ward
“Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable,”
Karen Adams
Child abuse is such a horrible and depressing thing. Did you knwo that apporoximately 30,000 children were reported abused or neglected in 2005.There are a few different kinds of abuse here they are and there stats.
Neglect 53.5%
Physical Abuse 22.7%
Sexual Abuse 11.5%
Emotional Abuse Approx. 6%
Medical Neglect Approx. 6%
Imagine if...
there was a system that children could go to and stay when they were being abused so who ever was abuseing them couldn't hurt them
-http://www.childabuse.org/abuse%20stats.html
http://www.childabuse.com/newsletter/stat0301.htm
At age 15, Gina designed a new type of asphalt made from recycled plastic bottles.
ReplyDeleteGina came up with her idea for "soda-pop pavement" when she and her family were riding through a place called Cash Creek near their hometown of Prince George, British Columbia. The local landfill was overflowing so badly, the family started calling the place "Trash Creek."
Gina knew that 1/3 of the material in landfills is plastic and isn't being used in asphalt. So she worked at the Husky Oil refinery for a couple of months, and there she developed her new asphalt, which she named "PolyAggreRoad." Plans are underway to use the new blend to pave roads this summer.
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http://moodle.thorntonacademy.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=8309
Imagine if.... We used plastic to make asphalt and we didn't burn as much plastic, the earth and the people in it would be more healthy.
EarthTrust is working against time and working against the odds, to educate the world about dolphin intelligence and abilities in time to halt huge kills which threaten many of their populations. It's a fight we can win: Earthtrust has saved millions of dolphins in past campaigns, and our research has made history in learning about the dolphin mind. This information and these images are changing the world. earthtrust.org/appledonate.html
ReplyDeleteImagine if...lots of people come in and help save our dolphins and then we could save more dolpins at a time.Maybe help the population. In 50 years we moght not have these creatures in the wild.
If sealers continue to harvest at the same rates over the next few years, it could spell trouble for the herd population, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' leading marine mammal scientist.
ReplyDeleteDr. Garry Stenson said the combination of high mortality and low reproduction rates has caused the seal population to drop by almost half a million - from 5.8 million to 5.4 million over the last several years.
Those numbers will continue to decline, he said, if the catches remain the same, forcing it to a point where it could be an environmental concern in the very near future.
"It means if we continue to take (the current quota of) 325,000 seals (each year), what we're predicting is that we've got two, maybe three, years before it becomes a conservation concern," he said.
Decline expected
Imagine if... people did not hunt poor, harmless seals we would not end up with the population decline.
Between 1950-1994 fisherman caught 400% moer fish.Cod in main used to be thick and now they cant catch any because they were so overfished."The heart can think of no devotion grater than being shore to the ocean"said Robert Frost.
ReplyDeleteImagine If...The world created a special divice that told the fisherman were the exact fish were.So they woulden't catch other harmless fish.
Starvation
ReplyDeleteIn the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm
Imagine if-
All the left over food people have could get shipped to the people who don’t have any food or all the people that have a lot of money donated a couple of dollars to these suffering people.
Hunger is a reality for nearly 14 million American children.
ReplyDelete--Us Department of Agriculture.
Between 2000 and 2003, the number of of poor children increased by 1.3 million.
--Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
In 2005, major U.S. cities reported a 77% increase in request for emergency food assistance. 54% of those needing help were children and families.
--U.S. Conference of Mayors.
18.5% of families with children under 6 years old face hunger.
--U.S. Department of Agriculture
imagine if...people stopped feeding cows as much as they do and started feeding people who need the food.
imagine if...people stopped being so self-centered and started caring for others and not just themselves.
imagine if...people didn’t let food go to waste and if there was somewhere were we could put all that food. No on would go hungry.
Nearly 25% of fish caught get thrown back. 100's of 1,000's of dolphins get caught per year. Dolphins and whales get caught in the nets and die . Nearly 1/3 of sea food comes from farm.
ReplyDeleteJust to be safer, I think we should get more of our fish from farms. So that we don't have to worry about catching dolphins in the nets. And risk them dieing.
“Loggerhead and leatherback turtles have only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding being accidentally snared by a deep-sea fishing line each year, a new study has revealed.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4677
Imagine if.... fisherman could untangle the turtles, fix their wounds, and release them back into the ocean.
Every day more carbon dioxide goes into the earths atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteImagine if... every one was a little more careful on how much carbon dioxide they use each day.
‘Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds. ”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html
Imagine if...school children could donate their lunches to help.