Climate Change Statistics:

The climate crisis is a very real threat that is impacting our planet and our world. It is fueled by human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels like coal, gas, and oil in order to provide transportation, electricity, energy, and heating. The effects of climate change include global warming, or the rapid rise of temperatures worldwide, which is leading to rising sea levels, more frequent and disastrous natural disasters, food and water insecurity, and ocean acidification, as well as many other things. 

Animals and plants aren't the only ones suffering from climate change. So are we. According to the World Health Organization, 3.6 billion people are already "highly susceptible" to the impacts of climate change, and an additional 250,000 deaths per year are expected between 2030 and 2050 from undernutrition, heat, malaria, and diarrhea alone. Even more people will die every year from extreme weather and natural disasters caused or intensified by climate change, poor air quality, an increase of the spread of disease, etc. From a study done by Climate Central, whole sections of major cities like New York, Shanghai, Hanoi, Osaka, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Mumbai, etc. could be underwater within our lifetimes if temperatures and sea levels continue to rise, displacing millions of people. But we still have a chance to limit the impacts climate change will have on our future. 

According to the UN, billions of tons of CO2 are being released every year from the burning of fossil fuels. To put that into perspective, one billion tons, or a gigaton, is the equivalent of roughly twice the mass of all the humans in the world as stated by Energy Education. The billions of tons of CO2 being emitted into the atmosphere are absorbing much more of the sun's energy than they would naturally, which is changing Earth's climate at a concerning rate. According to the Global Carbon Project, in 2024, global carbon emissions reached a record high. But if we all work together to bring down the levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere starting now, we can slow down climate change and global warming, as well as the impacts they bring.

Climate change may seem like a hopeless problem, but it is NOT. If we all act now, we still have a chance to save the Earth for us and for generations to come.

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