 | Vol. 6 No. 3 Winter 1998 |
| A Newsletter About New Jersey's Water Quality Programs |
If the
Earth
Was an
Apple... |  |
You could cut it into four equal slices. Three would represent the oceans of the world. The fourth slice represents the land area. If you cut the land slice in half, lengthwise, you'll have two one-eighth pieces of the apple. One of these slices represents areas where humans can't live such as desert, swamp, Artic and Antarctic regions of the world.
The last slice represents land where humans can live. Cut this last, one-eighth slice of the apple into four equal parts. Three of them represent areas of the world where food production is not possible, including land which has been developed.
Peel the fourth part carefully. This small bit of peeling, 1/32nd of the apple, represents the soil of our earth that all of us depend upon for food.
(reprinted from ECOS Magazine, Volume 5)
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