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From the David Rumsey Map Collection
Publisher: Rand, McNally & Co.
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What's the Golden Rule and the Green Rule?
What's the Golden Rule?
The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures
The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures
The idea dates at least to the early Confucian times (551–479 BCE), appearing prominently in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and "the rest of the world's major religions".
What's the Green Rule?
The Green Rule is derived from the classic Golden Rule found in major faith traditions, paraphrasing it by saying: "Do unto the Earth as you would have it do unto you."
Selected from many of the world’s great religious texts and spiritual teachings, the Green Rules were chosen to demonstrate that each religion and spiritual philosophy has a long-standing tradition of ecological stewardship...
Religions
Animated map showing how religion spread around the world
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Mapping Deforestation
Mapped: 30 Years of Deforestation and Forest Growth, by Country
Today, forests make up around 31% of the Earth’s total land area, spanning 15.68 million square miles (40.6 million km²). Over the past three decades, the world lost a bit more than 4% (685,300 square miles) of its forests, which equates to an area about half the size of India.
Europe and Asia were the only two regions which had significant overall forest growth during this time period, while Oceania saw no significant change and North and Central America saw a slight reduction.
Africa along with South America and the Caribbean were the regions with the greatest amount of deforestation, both losing more than 15% of their forests over the past 30 years.
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