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Every single day about 200 species go extinct. Every day 15.1 trillion pounds of green house gasses are released into the atmosphere. Every year 750 billion tons of ice melt in the artic. Every year there are about 64,100 wildfires every year. In Israel the average October tempiture is currently 66 degrees. To you this may seem small and unimportant compared to COVID, but this is only the begining.
If things continue going at this rate than all the ice in the Artics will melt, releasing huge amounts of CO2 and Methane. These gasses will heat the world at allarming rates. That will only be the start of the terror. There will be droughts and fire in some parts of the world, floods and monsoons in others. Islands are going to disappear off the face of Earth. The US's GDP will drop by 36%, or about 22,000 dollars. About 1/3 of the world will be unlivable.
Then if all continues the way it is now, in about the year 2080 there will be a giant dust bowl like event that will cover the world with dust. The food supplies will drop drastically, and everyone who does't live in Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, or Alaska will die. After that the temperature of the world will sky rocket, and by the year 2150 Earth will be just like Venus. The oceans will evaporate and Earth's daytime temperature will be 230f while in the night it will be -230f. We need to act now to save our world from this dystopia!
If we cut down Earths carbon footprint by 50% by 2030, we will receive enough time to stop all of this. These next nine years aren't years to sit down on our butts. These are nine years to take action, and save our planet.
Those of you who don't believe me can PM me on NaNo and I'll share with you resources that I used to create this.
Please disscuss Climate Change, Global Warming, and other dangers our world faces here
Sincerely,
MoonHalo
I can't take time to check all the specifics of this comment, but I'm posting it because I believe climate change is a very real issue. MoonHalo, would you please send another comment listing your sources? Thank you.
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submitted by MoonHalo, Neverland
(January 3, 2021 - 5:25 pm)
(January 3, 2021 - 5:25 pm)
Wow. I'm not religious as of now, but coincidence or not, that's pretty crazy.
(January 7, 2021 - 7:53 pm)
@-, please don't disrespect people's religion.
as a Christian, i 100% sure that's not a coincidence! that's cool! :D
(January 8, 2021 - 11:40 am)
I agree, climate change is a suuuppppeeeerrr important subject that needs to be talked about more! It's crazy how big of a problem it is and how little is being done for it. But I feel as though it's so hard to know what to do about it, you know?
But I think educating yourself and talking about it more is really important. I read Greta Thunberg's book called, "No One is Too Small to Make a Difference," and thought it was really helpful. I also watch tons of documentaries on climate change, which is good for educating yourself.
I think that another big misconception is that climate change hasn't happened yet. It will get worse, but it's already started. I live in southern California, and thousands of houses burn down in the fires every year! In fact a lot of my friends' houses have burnt down :(
But I don't have it the worst. I live in a wealthy area, that has the money needed to protect ourselves from climate change (to a certain extent). But in some poorer places, they don't have that money. So when the ocean overflows, they can't build houses on stilts. When mud slides wipe out crops that people were growing for a living, they don't have the money to re-plant.
It's really devastating. :(
Thank you, MoonHalo, for creating this thread!
~Rainbow! (she/her)
(January 8, 2021 - 1:45 pm)