If you wonder what the fuss is about today being Earth Day, ponder this: Without the benevolent environment of our gentle, glowing orb, we'd be like dinosaurs -- dead and extinct.
Today, let's forget the science. Let's boil it down to basics and talk plain old common sense.
If you don't have water to drink (water without harmful chemicals and sediment and bacteria), you don't live long.
If you don't have air with enough oxygen, you can't breathe and you don't live long.
And if you don't have soil that's arable and can grow crops, well, you don't live long.
Get the picture?
Now, here's where it gets interesting. If you don't have water for the soil, trees won't grow and you won't have oxygen and you can't breathe, nor will you have shade from the sun, which will evaporate ...
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