HUMAN ARE THE

EARTH'S ENEMY
NO.1
Team 3 - Rocksky 19
2,4000,000,000,000
Gigaons of CO2
FROM 1850 TO 2019, 2,400 GIGATONS OF CO2
WERE EMITTED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY. AROUND
950 GIGATONS WENT INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
THE REST HAS BEEN ABSORBED BY OCEANS
AND LAND.

SOURCES: THEWORLDCOUNTS.COM
We lost 411 millions hectars of
forest between 2001 to 2020

ACCORDING TO GLOBAL FOREST WATCH, THE

WORLD LOST 411 MILLION HECTARES OF
FOREST BETWEEN 2001 AND 2020. THAT’S
ROUGHLY HALF THE SIZE OF THE UNITED
STATES AND EQUIVALENT TO 10 PERCENT OF
GLOBAL TREE COVER. IN 2020, THE WORLD
LOST A NEAR-RECORD 25.8 MILLION HECTARES
— ALMOST DOUBLE THE AMOUNT IN 2001.
The Earth is 0,18 ° C warmer
every decade
THE GLOBAL ANNUAL
TEMPERATURE HAS INCREASED
AT AN AVERAGE RATE OF 0.08°C
(0.14°F) PER DECADE SINCE
1880 AND OVER TWICE THAT
RATE (+0.18°C / +0.32°F) SINCE
1981.

SOURCES: NCEI.NOAA.GOV
 Humans are driving one million
species to extinction
ABOUT 75% OF LAND AND 66% OF OCEAN AREAS HAVE BEEN “SIGNIFICANTLY ALTERED” BY
PEOPLE, DRIVEN IN LARGE PART BY THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD, ACCORDING TO THE IPBES
REPORT. CROP AND LIVESTOCK OPERATIONS CURRENTLY CO-OPT MORE THAN 33% OF
EARTH’S LAND SURFACE AND 75% OF ITS FRESHWATER RESOURCES.

THE IPBES REPORT FINDS THAT THE AVERAGE ABUNDANCE OF NATIVE PLANTS, ANIMALS
AND INSECTS HAS FALLEN IN MOST MAJOR ECOSYSTEMS BY AT LEAST 20% SINCE 1900
BECAUSE OF INVASIVE SPECIES.

THE REPORT DRAWS INEXTRICABLE LINKS BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND CLIMATE
CHANGE. AN ESTIMATED 5% OF ALL SPECIES WOULD BE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION BY
2 °C OF WARMING ABOVE PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS — A THRESHOLD THAT THE WORLD
COULD BREACH IN THE NEXT FEW DECADES, UNLESS GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS ARE
DRASTICALLY REDUCED. EARTH COULD LOSE 16% OF ITS SPECIES IF THE AVERAGE GLOBAL
TEMPERATURE RISE EXCEEDS 4.3 °C.
Sources: nature.com
U.N. warns of millions of premature deaths
by 2050 due to environmental damage
ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
CAUSED BY MAN-MADE
ACTIVITIES IS HAVING A
DEVASTATING TOLL ON
HUMAN HEALTH, THE
UNITED NATIONS SAID ON
WEDNESDAY, WARNING OF
MILLIONS OF PREMATURE
DEATHS DUE TO AIR AND
WATER POLLUTION BY 2050
IF ACTION WAS NOT TAKEN. SOURCES: REUTERS.COM
 According to the U.S. Department of
Interior, 90 percent of wildland fires in
the United States are caused by people

SOME HUMAN-CAUSED FIRES RESULT FROM CAMPFIRES LEFT UNATTENDED, THE BURNING
OF DEBRIS, DOWNED POWER LINES, NEGLIGENTLY DISCARDED CIGARETTES AND
INTENTIONAL ACTS OF ARSON. THE REMAINING 10 PERCENT ARE STARTED BY LIGHTNING
OR LAVA.

ACCORDING TO VERISK’S 2019 WILDFIRE RISK ANALYSIS 4.5 MILLION U.S. HOMES WERE
IDENTIFIED AT HIGH OR EXTREME RISK OF WILDFIRE. ACCORDING TO LATEST VERISK
ESTIMATES, IN CALIFORNIA, THERE WERE MORE THAN 2 MILLION PROPERTIES AT HIGH TO
EXTREME WILDFIRE RISK IN 2021, THE LARGEST NUMBER OF PROPERTIES OF ANY U.S.
STATE
SOURCES: III.ORG
 According to the U.S. Department of
Interior, 90 percent of wildland fires in
the United States are caused by people

IN ASIA, SOME 43 MILLION PEOPLE

IN CHINA WILL BE DISPLACED,
ALONG WITH 32 MILLION IN
BANGLADESH AND 27 MILLION IN
INDIA. CITIZENS OF COUNTRIES IN
THE REGION SUCH AS VIETNAM,
INDONESIA, THAILAND, JAPAN AND
THE PHILIPPINES WILL ALSO LOSE
THEIR HOMES IF SEA LEVELS
CONTINUE TO RISE.
SOURCES: REBELLION.GLOBAL
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watching!