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   BenderSastre said, about 6 hours ago

   Well, I’ve heard of this one at least. Please, regale me with its wonders.
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   Zyreenesque said, about 6 hours ago

   if you eat the skin, you get jumpy
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   Prof danglais said, about 4 hours ago

   Should only be eaten naked, in the shower, the juice goes everywhere.
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   Radish said, about 3 hours ago

   Had a starring role in a James Bond movie.
   Underneath the mango tree
   Me honey and me make boolooloop soon
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   Plods with Beer ( did I mention beer? ) said, about 1 hour ago

   Is the food of Superman’s alter-ego?
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   banjoaah said, 20 minutes ago

   “Alternative Minimum Security”

   “Our intense greed for self-aggrandizement has resulted in massive exploitation of nature……soil erosion and desertification have become the norm”—Purushottam Kumar

   Desertification is caused by the turning of the soil to cultivate. Because the soil only contains marginal amounts of plant nutrients farmers quickly abandon the land. The disturbed land then quickly erodes. Think of the processes that created the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s.

   According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment marginal soils store over a quarter of all the organic carbon stores in the world. These stores of carbon are greatly reduced by desertification and the related loss of vegetation. Turning marginal dry land into desert leads, notL only to increased food shortages, but also increases global warming. Global warming in turn increases dry lands. The circle of death goes ’round and ’round.
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   “Water is the driving force in nature” — Leonardo da Vinci

   The human race needs drinking water to survive. The amount of drinking water is decreasing in relation to the growth of human population. Demand is out-stripping supply. “As human population increases, so does the consumption of water. In the past 50 years, the per capita availability of fresh water has decreased by one third”. [United Nations…M2 Presswire:].
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   The majority of the world’s population derives potable water from groundwater (aquifers) rather that rivers and freshwater lakes. “…the rate at which global groundwater stocks are shrinking has more than doubled since 1960 and 2000, increasing the amount lost from…(30 to 68 cubic miles) of water per year.” [ Geophysical Research Letters].
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   Being the creative animals that we are, we have managed to figure a way to introduce “desertification” to bodies of water as well. Toxins such as artificial fertilizer, herbicides and insecticides from agricultural run-off poison the waterways and oceans. Industrial toxins are pumped into water as if water only exists to be used by industries as a garbage dump. These poisons make the affected areas deadly to aquatic life and useless for drinking water. Think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area the size of Texas. Think of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio that caught fire in 1969 because it was filled with so much industrial poison. That river is the perfect emblem for what we have done to the earth’s water systems.
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