Here are some of earths stats right now:
At 7.10p.m(malaysian time)
Earths population: 6,670,752,780 and rising by 3 per second.
Birth's around the world: 258 per minute.
Death's around the world: 107 per minute.
Abortions around the world: 88 per minute
People infected by HIV around the world: 5 per minute
and lastly
Earths temp(c) on the rise at 7.11pm(malaysian time): 14.6234832716
this may not scare you...but just imagine the population of the world by the year 2020...9billion? 11billion? 20billion? imagine the amount of people being infected by HIV/AIDS by 2020...20million? 40million?imagine Earths temperature by 2020...going up 15C. a day?
What are we doing to our Earth? You may think that "Oh, I dont screw up the earth" but let me tell you everyday almost 400galleons of pollution is put into our atmosphere...400GALLEONS...each day 650thousend hectars of forest is being cleared away for construction of new cities and posh apartments...thats more than 3 million tree's being cleared away for our comfort. That could have been 650hundred thousend galleons of oxygen wasted for our comfort. and you wonder why we are getting sick so often? why epidemics and pandemics are become a more common name...used more than twice a day by 2 out of 10 people? The answer...us. Nothing more nothing less. Just us.
Global warming...a term not known to the average person in the 1900's but now becoming our worst problem.
Facts on Global warming
-The number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes has doubled over the last 30 years.
-The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past DECADE.
-At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming and are moving closer to the poles.
-All of the ten hottest days on record has occured in the last 15 years.
If global warming continues:
-Deaths from global warming will double in 25 years to 300,000 people a year.
-Global sea levels will rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and the Antartic, devastating coastel areas and coastel cities around the world.
-Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.
-Droughts and wildfires will occur more frequently.
-THE ARTIC OCEAN COULD BE ICE FREE BY 2050 drowning polar bears who rely on the ice for ground.
-More than a million species of wildlife could be driven to extinction by 2050.
Does that scare you? If it didnt well then your not human...but if it did please start helping to save our world...
if you would like to learn more and help stop global warming please visit these sites:
www.climatecrisis.org
or
www.stopglobalwarming.org
We can make a Difference.
1 comment:
Everytime I read a Global Climate Change post, regardless of it leanings, I am stuck by this overwhelming notion that there are people who actually believe man can stop Global Climate Change. Even if we had the intellectual and physical capacity to do so, there would remain a nagging question: How would we know when we've actually stopped the change? I ask this question alot and rarely get a rationale answer. A rational way to address the question might be along the lines of the position of John A. Warden III in his Thinking Strategically About Global Climate Change . There is no doubt that achieving any sort of global consensus on an ideal climate would be difficult, but it might be useful to try!
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