There are now roughly 8 billion people in the world, per the UN, with 1 billion added in just the past 12 years.
The climate crisis and global conflicts are:
▪️ forcing up to 828M into hunger
▪️ displacing 100M+
A 🧵on how #population explosion affects the most vulnerable:
About 47% of the world’s population lives in water-scarce areas.
In the Horn of Africa alone, 37M face starvation. The climate crisis has caused the region’s worst drought in 40 years.
Nearly 60% of the world is set to live in water-scarce areas by 2050, says the UN.
The world's population could spike another billion by 2037.
About 828M already suffered from hunger in 2021, mostly in Asia and Africa.
Around 660M people could still suffer from hunger by 2030, warns the UN, partly due to the effects of COVID-19.
The world is on track on emit record levels of CO2 this year, per a recent report.
The richest 1% — about 63M people — were responsible for more than double the emissions of the poorest half of the planet between 1990 & 2015.
Business jets flew a record 3.3M flights in 2021.
The population of the world is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050.
African countries — least responsible for, but highly vulnerable to, the climate emergency — will drive much of the population growth by 2050.
There could be 1.2B climate refugees by 2050, say experts.
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