World consumption of paper has grown 400 percent in the last 40 years. Now nearly 4 billion trees or 35 percent of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries on every continent.(source)
For the trees’ sake, please please please please use e-books!
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Rachel L.Carson, most famous for her Silent Spring, also completed many other excellent books on environmental conservation.
As an aquatic biologist early in her career, Rachel explored and admired the mystery of the seas with brain of a scientist. While as a woman worshiped the nature, she explored it with eyes of a sincere admirer.
As a gifted writer, Rachel whispered to us about the sea in the most beautiful descriptions, leading us to the seasons of an strange but engaging world. As a concerned scientist, she sharply stated the harm human activities did to the seas in a serious voice, making us think, facing disruptions of the ecosystem, what is the right thing to do.
Though the book was written in the 1950s and some of the statistics and facts might have been renewed, it is still a must-read book for everyone.
The sea is powerful but also fragile, is beautiful but her beauty could be forever ruined if we don’t start paying attention to the aquatic protection and restoration.