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...saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours, or power your television or computer for three hours."
Somewhere on the web there's a list that gives more of these very specific and concrete comparisons - how much water saved, how much fossil fuel not used, how many trees spared, how much pollution avoided by recycling a certain amount of aluminum, glass, plastic, steel - and how much difference it would make if everyone would do even one of those things. Problem is, I can't seem to find that list anymore. Maybe I'm just not putting the right search phrases into Google. Anyone happen to have a link?
I'm trying to compile a list that shows how doing even a small thing can make a significant difference. When we see movies like "An Inconvenient Truth," and hear about giant ice shelves breaking up, it's easy to become discouraged and think the problem is so big that we can't possibly have any impact on it. It's important to show that the choices we make in our lives, even seemingly small ones, do make a difference.
To that end I'm looking for that list of specific comparisons. Not the one that says "Switching to fluorescents will save you this-and-so-much money," and ditto for turning down the thermostat, etc. - I'm looking for the physical real-world impact that those changes will have, not their abstract dollar values.
Some might say, "We're in such deep shit by now that doing just a small thing isn't enough." Perhaps true - but the alternative is to do nothing at all, and that's even worse. We have to give people an accessible place from which to start.
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