The United States is the fastest growing industrialized country in the world, now increasing by approximately three million people per year. At this rate, the population will double too more than a half a billion within the next 60 years.

Population growth reduces self sufficiency in food, availability of vital natural resources, and standard of living. Consider that 36 million Americans now live in poverty and do not have sufficient food. As population grows all resources become in shorter supply.

The United States with only 5% of the worlds people, uses 35% of the worlds raw materials and the same amount of the worlds energy.

Worldwide agricultural land is lost at a rate of 15 to 17 million acres per year. Half of all tropical mature forests have been cleared to make way for other accom

modations. Tropical rain forests house about half of all species on earth and help regulate the global climate. Their destruction could have dire consequences.

Five elements are especially important to environmental education programs. They are an understanding of, and appreciation for, how nature works; An awareness of the interdependence of all life, and of the living and nonliving; an understanding of how environmental problems are caused; an interdisciplinary approach; and action.

· Wind power is harnessing a natural occurring river of air caused by differences in air pressure.

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