Thread by @earthandhuman1

We utilize the equivalent of 1.6 Earths to maintain our contemporary lifestyle, and ecosystems cannot keep up with our requests.

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The gap between what we need to expend to adapt and what we are expending is broadening. Estimated expenses of adaptation continue to climb and could reach US$280-500 billion per year by 2050 for developing nations alone.

Each year, we extract a projected 55 billion tons of fossil energy, minerals, metals, and biomass from the Earth.

@WHO estimates that at least 9 out of 10 people worldwide live in places with polluted air, and 91% of the world’s population breathes in polluted air every single day.

Emissions must decline 7.6 percent annually from 2020 to 2030 to keep temperatures from surpassing 1.5°C and 2.7 percent per year to stay below 2°C.

Preserving ecosystems is ​often more cost-effective than human-made interventions. In the Maldives, conserving the natural coral reef is four times cheaper than constructing a sea wall for coastal protection, even after ten years of upkeep costs.

The price of inactivity on climate change is anticipated to exceed $44 trillion by 2060, with the Middle East, Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia experiencing tremendous GDP losses.

The International Organisation on Migration assumes that up to 200 million people could be displaced by climate change by 2050.

More than 8 million people, which is 1 in every 5 global deaths, die prematurely from fossil fuel-based pollution every year.

In the last century, the global ocean level surged by around 8 inches (20 centimeters). Conversely, in the recent two decades, the rate has roughly doubled that of the previous century and slightly increases each year.

By 2030, climate change may be unstoppable. As shown in a UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, immediate action is required to avert the disastrous implications of global warming.

Methane, the primary element of natural gas, is responsible for more than 25 percent of the warming we are experiencing today.

Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into American water.

Paleoclimatology, or the analysis of climate change over time, uses data from tree rings, ocean deposits, coral reefs, and strata of sedimentary rocks to show that current warming is around ten times quicker than post-ice age warming.

Carbon dioxide isn’t the sole gas that contributes to global warming. Methane and nitrous oxide, for example, are significantly more hazardous than carbon dioxide alone.

According to scientists, hundreds of plant and animal species are projected to go extinct every day, approximately 1,000 times the natural rate. By the middle of the century, 30 to 50 percent of all species on the planet will have vanished.

Annually, about 7 million people die prematurely due to air pollution, accounting for one out of every nine deaths. Impure air is inhaled by nine out of ten individuals, making it the most severe environmental health threat of our time.

Annual plastic waste entering aquatic ecosystems could nearly triple from 9-14 million tons in 2016 to 23-37 million tons by 2040.

The Earth last had a nearly equivalent concentration of carbon dioxide about 3-5 million years ago, when the atmospheric temperature was 2-3°C warmer, and the ocean level was 10-20 meters higher.