We humans begun changing the atmosphere's composition by burning fossil fuels centuries ago. That triggered runaway global warming, and that process has been accelerating in recent years. Most people are doing massive harm which accelerates runaway global warming even more each and every day. Peter Carter and other climate scientists have been trying to warn us for years and years and years, decades even. Please listen.
biospherecollapse
Many people, including those in governments, are clueless as to where we stand in regards to the overall health of the biosphere we all depend on to live.
The Norwegians recently released a report titled "How Consumer Policy Can Enable a Circular Economy".
In it they state "climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution affect consumers directly through higher prices, reduced access to goods and greater uncertainty in global supply chains."
Higher prices are the least of our concerns.
Our species begun changing the atmospheres composition by burning fossil fuels two centuries ago and we have been gradually increasing our fossil fuel use ever since. We have changed the earth's energy imbalance so much that our planet is currently warming at a rate of four degrees celcius per century, and our species is still increasing the earth's energy imbalance by burning a hundred million barrels of oil every single day. If you drive a car then you are contributing to making this predicament worse. Please take personal responsibility for your own actions and do not use a car.
Runaway global warming is far from our only predicament.
More than half the trees our planet used to have are gone, and our species is consuming the remaining trees at an alarming rate.
Global insect populations are down north of eighty percent.
We are far outside of countless planetary boundaries and there are now eight billion people who will soon be fighting for what little remains to be fought over.
Our species will face biosphere collapse if we stay on our current course. Biosphere collapse means that you and everyone else will die a horrible death. It is a very unfortunate outcome that may be inevitable even if we change course and we start acting responsibly today. That is the seriousness of our predicament, that is why we absolutely need to do everything we can to heal our planet. The first obvious step is to stop doing massive additional damage to our planet every single day.
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