Pollution CO2 emissions from U.S. cars and trucks totaled 314 million tons in 2002 (Indoor 2)! This fact is absolutely mind-boggling. This is as much pollution as would be released from burning all the coal in a 50,000-mile long train! To put that into even more perspective, that is long enough to circle the entire world a little more than two whole times (Indoor 2)! America needs to take a stand and lead by example to the rest of the world when it comes to cutting down pollution of the Earth. Water and air pollution make our planet so much less beautiful, and it has many fatal effects on the organisms that inhabit it. The earth is like the human body. You yield what you put into and on it. The human body is a beautiful thing capable of many tasks and is quite resilient. You can take a fall on rough, bumpy concrete in roller skates and still be fine in the long run. A crusty, dry-blood colored scab will form on your knee, and a few weeks later it will be healed and you might not even be able to tell there was an injury there at all. This is just as the Earth being able to sustain an earthquake. It recovers quickly from the earthquake, never once ceasing to rotate on its axis or stop orbiting the sun. The human body and the Earth’s crust are actually comprised of many of the same elements. Oxygen makes up 65% of the human body while it makes up 47.2% of the Earth’s crust. Calcium makes up 1.5% of the human body while it makes up 3.7% of the Earth’s crust. Potassium makes up 0.4% of the human body while it makes up 2.6% of the Earth’s crust. And sodium makes up 0.2% of the human body while it makes up 2.9% of the Earth’s crust. The amounts of each of the different elements are actually quite close in the makeup of the two (Krantz 1). Having a bad diet is the same to the human body as pollution is to the Earth. If the human body were to be put on a fast food diet, meaning it could only consume food from fast food restaurants, it would have many negative effects....