Earth Day Facts

Earth day is an annual celebration usually observed on April 22. This day has been ideated for the sole purpose of honoring the Earth. To all individuals across the globe, every day should be observed as an Earth day, because if we do not respect Mother Earth, this place won’t be a good place to live. With every passing day, the Earth is facing a peril and that is why it is important for all of us to know the Earth day facts. The facts on Earth day are quite interesting and that is why all individuals across the globe should indulge in Earth day celebration for its betterment.

Important Earth day facts

The Earth will travel 1.6 million miles during its annual journey around the Sun. to mention specifically, the Earth will rotate around its axis for just once.
It is expected that the Sun will travel 13.5 million miles around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Sun the capacity to blend 51.8 billion tons of hydrogen into 51.5 billion tons of helium.

The portion of the sun’s energy captured by the Earth at the top of its atmosphere is 6000 trillion kilowatt-hours, which is approximately 600,000 times the quantity that Americans can consume in a single day.

The global population will grow by 211,000 people.

To your surprise around 40,000 acres of land (equal to the size of Boise, Idaho) will turn into desert.

Moreover, about 200 million tons of topsoil will get lost via erosion from croplands.

50,000 acres of forest will get removed.

Around 20 and 500 species will fade away from the planet eternally.

It is also estimated that people will guzzle over 3 billion gallons of oil.

In the course of burning oil and other fossil fuels will result into the release of 70 million tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This slowly gradually put the temperature of the Earth in the upward direction.

To our surprise – around 3 million tons of iron ore, 575 thousand tons of tin, 330 thousand tons of bauxite, and 34 thousand tons of copper will be slashed off from the Earth.

To our dismay, 800 million people sleep hungry, to get up too weak for a productive life.

Chronic hunger, malnutrition will cause death for 18,000 children.

The world is slated to spend $3 billion on military expenditures; astonishingly half of this will be spent by only one country.

Research and development investment will be to the tune of $2 billion, resulting in the publication of 1,900 science and engineering articles and leading to the approval of 150 patents.

4000 books will get published.

Pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools will teach 1.3 billion children.

Out of 97 billion e-mail messages that will be sent, over 40 billion will be spam.