Wow! I didn't know that!

Where deforestation has taken place to make way for cultivation, soils have been exposed to higher precipitation and temperatures. These processes deplete the soil’s organic matter, the soils harden and turn to desert. In 1882, desert or wasteland covered an estimated 9.4 percent of the Earth’s surface. By 1952 that area had increased to nearly twenty-five percent. It is a growing trend and one which, once it has happened, is very difficult, if not impossible, to reverse. http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarian.html#N_4_

Talk to Kids About Drugs This Holiday Season

Is there a simple way to reach kids and get them to turn away from drugs? The answer is YES. This inexpensive booklet is packed with tips and techniques that parents and caregivers can use to communicate with their young kids or teens to help build an everlasting, trusting relationship.

You can help them to understand what drugs are, why people use drugs, how drugs can stay in the body and how different drugs cause different effects.

https://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/the-truth-about-drugs.html

Which Pain Will You Suffer?

You will either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You will suffer the pain of discipline every time you force yourself to do what you know is right, that which will lead you to your goals. If you choose not to suffer that pain then you will suffer the pain that comes from never accomplishing your potential, of living a life suffering the pain of regret. Your choice. Which pain will you choose?

Climategate

The ClimateGate scandal has revealed that it’s not only Big Pharma’s scientists who hide and distort data: It’s also being done by some of the top global warming scientists! One of the world’s leading climate change research centres has been accused of manipulating data on global warming after thousands of private emails and documents were leaked. Hackers targeted the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit and published the files, including some personal messages, on the internet. Among the most damaging is one which appears to suggest using a ’trick’ to massage years of temperature data to ’hide the decline’.