It is amazing how connected we all are on our planet. To illustrate this here is something from a TV series on Netflix called Connected that blew my mind. It is in the episode on Dust and how important certain dust can be.
In Chad, North Africa, in what used to be Lake Mega-Chad, but is now part of the Sahara Desert, there are the remains of fish and other creatures, which once lived in the lake, before the area became a desert. The wind breaks up the skeletons into dust which is then carried by the wind up into the atmosphere and it makes its way all the way to the Amazon Rainforest, in South America, where the dust becomes part of the soil.
What is amazing is that the rain in the rainforest washes away most of the nutrients that the plant life needs to grow and survive, but the dust all the way from the Sahara Desert in Chad, North Africa, replenishes it. Around 22,000 tons of phosphorus is deposited in the Amazon Rainforest every year from Lake Mega-Chad, which is about the amount the soil loses every year due to rainfall.
Without this process happening, there would be no rainforest. We are truly, globally connected to every other ecosystem on the planet. This is why when we throw things away, there is no away. We need to look after our planet as well as each other.
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