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The ecological balance has been altered dramatically and there has been destruction of the skin of a state. The essence of this ancient country in dollar terms the cost of this land degradation is almost inconceivably immense degradation the term used to describe land that can no longer be used to sustain normal growth. Costs the wheatbelt of Western Australia 700 million dollars a year in lost production. The state of New South Wales two hundred million dollars a year. The cost to the nation of maintaining land repair stands at either 2000 means in dollars. The cost to communities the nation and the nation economy from Saluda predation mounts annually by astronomic proposal. Eventually the seriousness of the problem was publicly recognized the facts were faced in discriminant claim clearance had permanently damaged the face of a state. The introduction of new species of animals had disturbed the fragile and delicate nature of the

land. The presence is now understood. When the land was cleared and the trees had been removed. The most important element of the moisture cycle was also interrupted. The process of moist just seeping through the soil and being recycled through the roots was no longer possible. Initially the soil still had plenty of nutrition but gradually the production level started to fall. Without the bugs and organisms mixing the soil. The structure and the nutrient levels breakdown. The disaster that had occurred over 200 years had to be examined publicly discussed and dealt with. It was late but perhaps not too much. The government decided to. Wait. Declaring next year. Oh and it can and it will be the first. Yeah you know I think I did Lane. That

will provide as never before. I find this protecting the most fundamental ingredient by the natural environment. And agricultural prosperity that is now soil. There was a response across the country both in the urban and country areas. Land degradation was economically and ecologically destroying Australia. There was enthusiasm and when it's at the grassroots level. If I destroy the environment. That is if I destroy the bike resource that I have and that's my land if I don't have any land destroying it don't count on this family in the tiny town of tennis in the sun taking action. They know that at least 15 percent of the land is now gone. Because of salt. The great thing about lank is that you can look at a landscape like

that and and think of what the all time is didn't we might a few mistakes but the good thing about lank years it is now I blame. The rain clouds coming in from the Indian Ocean have for millions of years deposited salt impregnated water on the deposits sank below the soil the natural way to get your patients used much of the rainfall and the balance of salt and water deposits was on but then the agriculture that demanded the clearance of the land destroyed the balance. The ground water level rose and seeped onto the land. It is the sea. And as destructive to the soil. Making it impossible to grow crops or the edible vegetation necessary for rearing sheep and cattle. In some instances it hasn't been popular to say we've got salt. It's a bit like admitting you've got a day and.

When everyone admits it that it's then it's no longer something to be shined up and that's something that the grips of a now the chaebol in its salinity Wades all rabbits the question of salinity and land degradation has required the local farmers to come up with various betting the salt level planting seeds of salt resistant vegetation used as fodder for. Planting the native trees that will soak up the excess water through their roots and man's ingenuity knows no bounds. When asked to come up with a mechanical sailing to take proving as it winds its way over the devastated land. It's underground but obviously it's weathering the. Problem in Western Australia has been identified. Through groups. Is being addressed. There is hope that that state can

be slowed down and eventually can grow. But you've never stride it say that is very very small in comparison to the scale of the problem. And sometimes stuff is just patching up errors while the causes of the destruction continue. But then again you made people at the Rock a level that I really changing their thinking in the way they find me. And if we start to spread that across across the landscape in real change is possible. So I wrote the lame cake groups of doing is a tremendous springboard for changing the way firemen astride it with time as I didn't clear the land and get it into production I have a knot. It took a couple of generations of gut busting Hardwicke with the entire community behind them backed by government policy. Just stating that I ran away in a similar pioneering phase of land conservation.

The beginning we talked about living in harmony with the land. We have done makes this man but hopefully not. Mostly we still have time to learn that if we are not to lose everything our economic activity and very survival. We must come to terms with the uniqueness of the oldest driest continent inhabited by humans. So oil runoff and soil degradation is common in various parts of the world. Extensive irrigation in the United States over grazing in Africa excessive deforestation for use of crop land for I would. Have led to desert a vacation there around the world for the people of forest. I'm a distraction from the United States to call them reports. Soon. Americans freely embrace many causes some close to home. Others in distant places. The future of the tropical rain forest is one of those issues America has taken to heart for without the lessons learned from the rain forest. We would not know where we've come

from its destruction may mean we won't get a chance to find out where we're headed to. The rain forest mysterious remote alien within those forests are wonders that we've only begun to tap wonders which provided endless resources to the natives in those regions wonders that lie within the rain forest are being threatened daily extinction is a very real possibility. As populations grow in these regions so do the needs of the people many of them very poor. Land is cleared resources destroyed to make way for homes farmland and industry. Just what are we losing in terms of land. The estimates are as high as 200 million

acres burned every year. That works out to half a million acres and a species of plant every day. Tom Lovejoy is a biologist who has devoted most of his life working to save the rain forest. He knows well what's at stake. It's really important for people to understand that this is the single species transforming human existence. Either as. A source of some kind of like use for major abdominal operations. Species is essentially a whole set of volumes of information about biological systems. Which we have a. Huge vested interest in why logical out of these ourselves. It's a. Book burning. It's going to. Need species is the most sensitive indicator of some aspect of environmental change. So they are our early warning

system stresses being put on the environment which in the end will affect us. There are an estimated three hundred sixty thousand species of higher plants on earth. Scientists have studied less than 1 percent from that 1 percent have come more than a quarter of all the medicines now used around the world. With so much good having been derived from so few plants it can only be assumed there is much more yet to be found with the richest source of those plants now threatened. We may never find those potential cures. The National Cancer Institute is already taking action. It's hired several botanical gardens in the United States to go to the rain forest and collect samples of plants. Dr. Michael Boyd is the head of the NCI program. We collaborate very closely with these people in collecting diversity of natural organisms for purposes of then bringing

here to Frederick solely. To their extracts of these organisms and then test them and screening systems that we're developing or have underway here both into a strain and. An. AIDS virus screen. Dr. Michael Ballack runs the New York Botanical Gardens part of the National Cancer Institute program. We've managed to collect probably two thousand or twenty five hundred different species of plants in the tropics that is to say the new world which is the area we are responsible for program. Those two thousand twenty five hundred species represent probably no more than two or three percent of the total number of species in that region. They're like visits the rain forest four to six times a year. He not only gathers the much needed Sebastian mins he tries to draw on the knowledge of the natives who spent their lives working with plants.

So this will be one for snakes but for example I use it for this right. I used to drink when you're in blood. When you have blood in your urine you drink this and that clears it. Want to use this for the Santa Maria noticed. Something. By sleeping with him. Do you think it will be a sort of a sort of. Take the money from. The gum from the tree. OK let's get some bark. But the tragedy of the rain forest is a dual one. Not only are the plants being lost but so are the natives who have helped to unlock some of the mysteries that lie within doctors like in Boyd are fearful that time is running out. We carry out what's called me that is to say we go into many areas where the ethno botanical information about plants is truly as endangered as the rainforest environment itself. So we work with healers

herbalists in their 60s 70s 80s and even 90s who often have no apprentice. And in fact we are keeping the record for all time of what these great civilizations these indigenous civilizations used in their traditional healing. Here we are a very sophisticated research organization. At the National Cancer Institute going back to those individuals and. And trying to seek the knowledge of their culture in the past experience and and perhaps not surprisingly find it oftentimes to be extremely useful information in terms of getting initial lead toward a particular kind of plant or plant family to collect. There are other ongoing efforts to save the rain forest. Tom Lovejoy believes a debt for nature program is one way to go. The principle of it is this. That a debt. Is. A piece of paper it's a financial instrument and it can be used to finance

something. Just like a Bond can. And that's all bond a bond is a piece of debt. And so it's a matter of getting that piece of paper out of the hands of a commercial bank. And into the hands of concerts. The country in question. Another idea is to set up reserves and parks. We know that we're not going to be able to keep the rain forest intact as it is today or as it was 100 years ago. What we can hope for and what we can strive for is making parks and reserves out of the most unusual or the most biologically important pieces of rain forest and that I think is is and should be the goal. I think it's difficult for scientists and policymakers in first world countries to go to the third world and begin to preach about how people live without fixing what we're doing wrong and without cleaning up our own backyard. And I really think that comes first. And so we begin with education education in the first world as well as

education in the Third World. But is today's concern for the rainforest an issue that will remain active on the national agenda. Tom Lovejoy says yes I think the problem is big enough that it can't go away. And there may be momentary distractions but you can't ignore it when you can see thousands of fires on a given day. And it's it's not something that is easily put aside or put behind us. I mean this is the moment of truth for society. The native reforestation cannot be too emphasized. But planting trees does not theirs. I mean that the ecology of the tropical rain forest can be restored. However because they absorb CO2 planting trees to increase forested areas are productive ways to help control global warming. In Thailand forests are disappearing rapidly in reforestation

is a major issue from Thailand Nigeria Please I am now that much of a ton runs there is a temple in one to every province just 30 kilometers from Bangkok. The evening service have to start and 30 precise chanting Sutra. This temple is well known for its fake involvements in tree planting. They have been to instruct in tree planting in a u t r province north of Thailand for 30 years. As you may see there is a 5000 sapling in the ground of a temple waiting to be planted very soon and this little young tree is our future. Thailand is a first in the world that ban locking all together. Moreover we have started to move towards increasing forest within the 30 year reforestation project. And to increase forest mean a hard

climb up here for Thailand which is in the midst of rapid economy growth. One of the last remaining virgin stands of teak is in the north of Thailand. Government agents maintain constant patrols over these forests. The use of a helicopter to catch smugglers is unfortunately a familiar sight throughout the world. On this day the officers are lucky a smugglers boat is spotted and the chase is on. Trying to elude the patrol smugglers abandon the boat near the river bank. After a brief chase one of the smugglers is arrested. His face shows his fear as the penalties are stiff. Repeat offenders face a maximum of 20 years in prison. The contraband wood is discovered hidden in the bottom of the bill.

Since the 19th century has fascinated the world in everything from steam boats to furniture and it has brought in huge amounts of foreign currency. Thailand was once considered the land of the force. But its beauty is being eroded by the dual pressures of commercial logging and the need for farmland. Thailand cannot afford to lose another tree. In 1960. More than half the country was covered with forced in the past 30 years. Almost 28 percent has been lost as these forests have been decimated. Reacting to the devastation the government of Thailand declared a total ban on logging last year. More than six million people crowded the capital city of Bangkok. The city is bustling. From the extraordinary economic growth it has experienced over the past several years. As the Thai economy has boomed the demand for wood from the construction and paper industries has far outweighed the

domestic supply. Most of the demand is being met by importing wood from neighboring Malaysia. The world has not overlooked the fact. That a ban on logging in Thailand has simply moved the problem across the border. The government is aware of the criticism from abroad and is looking for new solutions. Timber remains essential for living. Such as construction and firewood for families. What we need is to make ourselves prepared to meet these demands with domestic timber. The Thai royal family is spearheading reforestation efforts by appealing directly to the people. Princess to the porn has visited the devastated mountain areas to express how important it is to plant trees for the future of Thailand.

At the center of the government effort is the 30 year reforestation plan which calls for the planting of trees on 2000 square kilometers of land each year. Ultimately almost 40 percent of the country is expected to be covered with trees eucalyptus and teak saplings to be planted next year are being grown in local forestry bureaus. The government is not attempting to restore the original tropical forest but it is hoping to meet the domestic demand without imports and to leave the virgin forest intact. Trees will be planted in designated forests on land owned by the government. But there are difficulties ahead. Here in the northeast of the country 13 families have built a squatters village in one of the devastated national forests. Farmers without land of their own have illegally moved into the national forests and

cleared the woods to farm the land. This man has cleared five hectares of forest and his crops support a family of six. He grows a kind of potato that grows quite well on even marginal soil. Thus it has become a popular crop in the infertile north east. In fact most of the farmers in this region are growing to earn money. Since the 1970s his father has become one of Thailand's leading export items second only to Rice. The majority of the Kasai is shipped to Europe and Japan. It is primarily used to feed livestock. Or is processed into artificial seasonings. More than 8 million tons of pro-Saddam. For export it and. To the industrial nations.

But it is extremely greedy when it grows in several years. This soil will be depleted of all essential nutrients and will be unable to sustain any other potential crops when the nutrients in the soil are used up. Even because Savage is unable to grow. I used to grow in this field 20 years ago with my neighbors but all of them have one just like myself in the two years since they left this area. Only weeds have survived in the barren soil. This forces the farmers to move on in a clear different forest. There they'll begin growing again an endless vicious circle. No good. I know it's bad. But I have my family to support. I'm alive.

Farming is the only way for me to get money. Because someone may be their only source of income. It only brings them in a year is three hundred and thirty American dollars. The family has to buy their food elsewhere. And even with such simple meals. And after all this effort they're only left with a few dollars in their wallet. It is estimated that one point two million families almost 20 percent of the population earn their living as illegal farmers. These intruders are living throughout a vast area of the devastated national forests the forests themselves account for more than 50 percent of the country. This means that most of the land on which the government hopes to plant trees is at the same time being cleared by the squatters who occupied the land. Each time the government designates a new area for tree planting. The forestry

department deploys its forces into the force. Their mission is. To clear out the illegal farmers. By force. If necessary. For the families it begins again. Thrown out of this area they will seek out another national forest only to repeat the same process. It's the end of only one battle in the ongoing war between improving one's standard of living and conserving the forest. We know that this sweeping operation is far from a fundamental solution. The key to this problem is to give them other ways and means to live. But Thailand just does not have the

money to do that. So how can the government make it compatible to protect the forest and the well-being of the people. One of the policies they've adopted is the construction of what they call the forest village. The government has agreed to provide some of the National Land to the landless farmers. The farmers who move in will be given the right to farm the adjacent lands. For the lucky few It's a chance to start a new life as soon as their new home is finished. They can begin the planting of their three hectares of land a key to the success of the reforestation plan is to guarantee a home for these landless farmers but the land is limited and only 30000 of the 1.2 million can be moved into these forest villages. This past me on Buddha's birthday ten thousand people gathered

200 kilometers northeast of Bangkok. They came to restore the splendor of Mt. Chan residence students and the military participated in the event. They hope to turn the barren mountainside into a well managed forest forests and a higher standard of living. Thailand is not alone in the struggle to make these two compatible. The burden of solving this complex issue should be shared equally. Not only by the developing nations facing deforestation but also by the industrial nations who have contributed to the destruction of the third world's forests. That report from Thailand shows us that once the forests are gone. It requires an in credible effort to restore them. Dusty old Nations now face the question how they can help the Third World countries get out of their dilemma.

Japan is criticized worldwide for contributing to the destruction of tropical forest 67 percent of Japanese soil is covered with forests. You want to elaborate on that. We've got to send my mom more than anything Japanese indigenous teams are. So expensive. Wages are high and that means our own steep slopes. That as to the cost of logging if one tries to be of the house using Japanese timbers alone the cost will more than double. Right and this really used to the mass import of inexpensive top it goes and we import impact percent of all told Go team who traded you know more people in Japan are saying no that Japan should supply timbers also but in fact are we going from the top experts from all over the world. Does Japan also import timber from Australia. Yes it does. Clearing our forests to export timber to Japan has long

raised concerns here particularly when the trees are exported as wood chips for pulp and pipe. In fact Lloyd government recently decided to allow ancient forests in the state of New South Wales to be cut down for export. Many Australians are concerned about forests here and everywhere and the movement has just started to boycott rainforest. The buildings and so forth. As you know make it a mass consumption is not limited to Japan alone. Our lifestyle in the industrial nations is based on mass consumption of earth's limited resources not only of lumber the ore So the problem must be shared equally by all the industrial nations. The population of the earth is now high and to change the climate it's predicted that this number could double the year 2025.

The limited resources of the planet cannot cope with this continued escalation. More people will demand more energy and generating more energy will further deplete resources and create pollution for the developed nations. Mass consumption and convenience have been seen as a right. Not a privilege. I could you know of our lives generated waste. In epic. Proportions. And there's a price to pay for fostering the attitude of throwaway society. Most of the population growth is occurring in countries that cannot afford more mouths to feed with the developing world's aspirations to mirror lifestyles in the developed world problems. The compounding thus they will continue to burn fossil fuel use up trees grow food and over used soil and adopt industrial practices we now know to be destructive. Of.

The third world. Is in financial ruin to adopt new and environmentally safer technologies. The cost. And they're out of control technology rather of extinction. We cannot look like sacrifices. I'm no global ski so what. Maybe this is fact and you want to lose the fight to survive as a species. Problems and the solutions must meet everyone in my. Own nation must act together or the earth will no longer be able to support life. You know Windsor don't compete with the idea of altering the environment to suit their needs. Now we must alter our needs to suit the inbox. And there will be a price to pay the cost of bringing that up should clean up expenses and the trade offs.

That's. The ideas of jobs and economic wealth will continue to do battle with the idealism of nature the environmental health or gets to where we save energy. Slow population growth reduce waste and stop polluting. It was really invite passionate beliefs of the environmental movement which be translated into action. Consumers must become conservators and all nations must share in the return to the concept of greening the earth. If we continue what we're doing the limited resources of our planet will soon be depleted. It's high time we take a good hard look at our lifestyle. And take some of those small steps we've been discussing toward a world kind of the end run. So make a decision. What do you think we should do. What can we do.

So well everyone one of us should be more conscious about using our limited resources effectively. We should be thinking more about recycling. Let's see a Japanese example. With a population of thirty eight thousand since Suji city produces 30 percent less garbage than the national average. It amounts to only 700 grams per person per day. And recycling is how they do it. They start by separating their garbage into various categories at home. All together the garbage will be separated into nine categories at home. The key is to separate them before they become combined. 6 o'clock in the morning on garbage day the people carry the sordid waste to one of the

one hundred and twenty four garbage pickup sites in the town. It's here that the uniqueness of this system can be seen even though they've sorted it home residents further divide the materials into 13 more categories. Because the more specific the category the higher the price. The garbage collectors will pay. In the 13 years since this recycling system began sales of waste to the garbage collectors has a man to do one hundred and twenty five million yen. The city has used this money to buy new sickle instruments for school bands and books for elementary school libraries. However the success of this recycling system is not only due to the efforts of the residents. To sell the garbage at the highest possible price. The city's environmental health department accepts bids from the five garbage collecting companies every three months. The company whose offer is even one yen higher than the others will get to buy all the

garbage in town. This 13 year old recycling plan has increased the amount of garbage which is reused by 14 times. To encourage more involvement by the people the city sponsors various activities. Including a tour of the landfills. Waste tends to increase proportionally with half and. So the community is hoping to be able to cut the amount of waste that results from each household. Even further the basic message is. Garbage shouldn't be thrown away but rather be re-used. Pretty impressive and I get a sense recycling might take a good deal of effort but it does have its rewards. I understand that. If each American recycle just one aluminum can instead of throwing it away. The energy saved by this recycling. Would then be enough to supply power to

the city of 4 million people. The size of certain for two and a half days like that are now glistening there so beautifully in the night. Recycling can be very tough. So how would you say that we're doing with our recycling efforts in the United States. Well Lloyd recycling is very popular and I might add growing among Americans citizens and communities recycle everything from aluminum to glass to plastic although over 60 percent of all aluminum cans are recycled annually. Newspapers are the most popular items. Americans recycle here in the U.S. Our biggest hindrance now to recycling is a lack of reprocessing facilities especially in the area of newspaper reprocessing. But there are some states like California Connecticut Florida New Jersey and now even our own state of Maryland that are very aggressive in the recycling area.

In America you can change lives and I guess any country can and not only our individual lifestyle but eventually industries and societies where this has been these happening in Sweden has you know Rambo times had to do this. It all started in April 1998. Swedish scientists reported that they had found small amounts of poisonous dioxide in tissue paper as a result of the killer and breaching process. Today we know that the level of these dioxins was so low that they have no health effects at all. But the result of the thing still here today there are practically no chlorine bleach tissue papers on the shelves of a Swedish supermarket. Organic from pulp and paper mills has been a known pollutant in Swedish lakes and coastal waters for a long time. But it was the dioxin report that defied the public and led consumers to actively avoid buying bleach products. People realized that there is no need for snow white

paper for a number of uses of household tissue toilet paper stationery coffee filters and you can even paper. Yes I do. Why because I am environmentally conscious. Well I am mostly looking at the price. Because a credit for yourself buy a paper. Yes always. For me it is self evident. If we all help with the environment which is so important today every little thing helps. The industry was much tissue was a ready made of recycled fiber and it was easy to increase production. Many meters could use oxygen bleaching instead of chlorine and ways of bleaching with less chlorine were quickly introduced which cuts down the release of chemicals. Sweden has a long tradition of recycled fiber based paper and has achieved a good quality. But we must remember that in some cases chemical

is necessary for some tissue products to get high purity and absorption. So for some uses in bleach tissue is necessary. But for householders practically all tissue sold today is great thanks to consumer pressure and nowadays also regulation. But Sweden is a great exporter of fiber products. The shining white bleached tissue is sold abroad to countries where consumer reaction has not yet started. So you feel our consumer attitude in the United States is changing like that of Europe that it's becoming more visible and more aggressive. I must tell you that the job of finding environmentally safe products is getting easier. A number of books and I'm holding just a few of them here that are available on the market can help consumers select products which are safe to the environment. These books provide helpful information to consumers. Decide which businesses to support these individual decisions are

contributing to a shift in the buying habits of U.S. consumers. It is possible for citizen groups to bring about positive changes when it comes to protecting the environment. Sue Copeland reports on one such group and its effort to save one of America's richest water resources. The Chesapeake Bay it covers sixty four thousand square miles. Includes five states in its watershed is home to 13 million people and numerous species of waterfowl sea and plant life. For hundreds of years. Many enjoyed the resources and bounty the bay had to offer. There were those who appreciated it for its beauty. And there were those whose very livelihoods depend in a what could be brought forth from the bay's waters.

But about 10 years ago many began to realize there was something rotten in the bay its natural beauty and rich resources were in decline. Success was killing the bay. Bob Evans life is dependent on the good health of the day. He has spent his life along its waters its decline threatened his livelihood. But Evans says things are getting better. They've done a lot of cleanup with agriculture. They've had buffer areas around the fields to stop the nutrients from coming in the bay. They stopped a lot of the factory dumping from the Sasquatch had in Baltimore a lot of difference in that and that type of area. And a true cleanup of the bay. The comeback of the bay could be credited to a lot of people but not has played a more determined role than the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Its roots go back to the late

1960s when a small group of concerned citizens realized there was a need to save the day. Will Baker is the president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. You know for the first 15 years of our existence we just kept harping away on the fact that the Chesapeake Bay is in trouble. You've got to pass laws you've got to implement regulations you've got to do many things that are very difficult and very expensive to reduce the pollution going into them. And finally I think people began to listen. One of the payoffs for this dedicated group of activists was the 1987 signing of the Chesapeake Bay agreement an agreement which the CBF had worked long and hard to attain. The states of Maryland Virginia Pennsylvania the District of Columbia along with the federal government all pledged to work to restore the quality and productivity of the Chesapeake. This combined effort appears to be working. One sign of improvement is

the slow return of the bay's grasses which had declined by 80 percent over the past 30 years. Even so the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says it's too soon to do any cheering. We need to do is study long term trends for 10 years. We hope now we're going to be starting a trend where the grasses will increase but it's still too early to tell. With the population in the area surrounding the Chesapeake Bay expected to grow by 3 million in the next 30 years. The effort to save the bay is expected to face even more hurdles. But the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is convinced it is possible to have growth increase the number of jobs and improve the standard of living for those who live along the bay while also protecting the environment. Well Baker says that they may never see a return to its level of productivity. That was the stuff of legends 300 years ago. But I think it is reasonable to try and achieve a Chesapeake Bay that

produces oysters crabs rock fish other varieties of shellfish. They can sustain a healthy recreational and Marshall fishery. That we can swim in without worry of disease. That has open space more healthy systems healthy habitats around its edges. And that is a place for you and me to enjoy. Because after all that's what saving the bay is all about. So if they're in a similar example as in Canada that show how individuals can really make a difference. Well as I mentioned earlier like Canadians are the most wasteful people in the world I feel like I'm parading the family's dirty washing but it's true on the average each person in this country generates one metric ton of garbage each year. Now when you start breaking it down you find that 30 to 40 percent of all household waste could be composted and turned into fertilizer.

You want to tell us more about that. What we're talking about all sorts of garbage everything from egg shells to coffee grounds can be composed that and people are starting to do this. This here Lloyd is a home composter in the city of Toronto has sold 60000 of these they're being sold by the city at one third the retail price and the demand has been overwhelming. The city in fact can't keep up. We also have a blue box program here and at home we sort all of our garbage the bottles and newspapers go into the special blue box which is picked up for recycling every week every week. Now the city hopes to reduce about 35 percent of the material going into the landfills with these two programs. But of course the real solution isn't recycling the real solutions creating less waste. Small steps along the way. Can make these small steps slashed. It's essential to teach our children to respect. Now for an exciting approach to involve children how to save our nature. Let's go to Australia. The standard Victorians taking small children aware of global

warming through the Center for Education and Research for environmental strategy known to the children as a series of it. Because there's nothing extra carbon dioxide in the greenhouse travel is a fun rule where the children are given practical examples of greenhouse gases. This is. Not energy and it's being driven from energy that's come from the sun. So the greenhouse effect is explained to them appropriately in a greenhouse classroom because we're not and I am. OK. The other day on the trail they investigate another source of environmental pollution. Now.

What's making. The most. Out of these different transport. Carson over. And so they picked a bag of car exhaust for examination. Oh my God. Just driving a car reduces not only exhausted but also not greenhouse gases. The series is actually built on a former rubbish dump. But. Here is a must for the Victorian children who want to learn about our planet its creatures and how we can preserve it for them and for all children in the future. A small step perhaps. But one which has provided them with an

insight into the environment and the importance of not just storing. And Serato Stuart McLean has a report on a unique field trip for schoolchildren in Ontario. Still it will thanks Floyd the environmental movement has often used as a rallying cry and effectively I think that notion that we don't pass our world onto our children we borrow it from them. Well a couple here in Ontario Chuck and Pat Hawker have with their own money and energy built a boat which cruises local rivers and lakes. Their aim is to show children how pollution is affecting the world in real terms. We have the most serious environmental problem of contaminants and they're interested in seeing from the water. Much in the same way that we do here. You get a different perspective when you see the pipe in the water.

Every remembered for you for the rest of your life. And. That will. Burn environment. For one week and for caring for the environment. It's got to be it's a problem. And it simply has not been properly jeopardize the water supplies. We're going. To. Really understand that you just can't understand people.

As for the future. And we can't wait for the kids to do. It Now. It was keep all of these small ships growing. We should not be isolated. We should be a united force to change industry government and society toward a kinder approach to the in-law. How about a parting word from a fellow broadcaster. I think we have to emphasize the fact that the resources here on earth are limited and we live in an overpopulated spaceship and

therefore we have to find ways to use these resources and facilities in a more intelligent and effective way. So the message to rich countries is consume less safe more energy and find new technology to make this possible. We need more of your help in technology that can preserve our environment too. I truly feel that it is time for everyone to think about what the true assistant is the UN and national interest on a global scale. Here in the US much has been done to raise the public's awareness about the role they must play in saving the environment. But it is just a start. Both the public and business have their work cut out for them in order to salvage the planet of today for the generation of tomorrow. There's only one thing that has struck me through this broadcast it's the notion and it's not a new one that as we look to the future we should consider the past. Many of the reports we've seen dealt

with how the Aboriginal or native peoples consider themselves to be one with the environment. And I think it's clear now it's clear that those of us in the western world anyway have too long considered ourselves apart from or even masters of nature. It seems equally clear to me that as we rewrite our outlook as we look for that key to the future we could do worse than reflect on the values of those older whirls. It was quite usual for developing countries to ignore the importance of environmental protection when pursuing nomic. And Taiwan is a typical case. The Taiwan government now has banned the import of scrap metal. We are here to tell other developing countries taking Taiwan as an example not to import industrial waste from industrialized countries. Tonight we're seeing many problems that have no boundaries. But if people work together like the Landcare farmers they can turn around these problems as

more people say the Earth is our mother. If you write her she will retaliate. We must protect and care for her. And that Dinah is in Japan. It originally meant the blessing is too good for me and taught us to treasure and co-exist with what nature has giving us. But now this concept is being eroded and outweighed by the comfortable throw away lifestyle that each of us must remember that everyone is adding to pollution to make decisions based on this awareness. And we should not forget this where we want to get involved in a very risky gamble stakes when life on this planet. We've been gathering to see how far animals plants and humans can tolerate pollution and yet still hope to survive and prosper. And you with all of us living on this earth are a part of this.

So it's up to wash to stop this dangerous game of change. If we care about a beautiful planet. For.