SMALL ACTIONS FOR BIG CHANGE
Our actions caused this, so only our actions can undo it.

OUR CLIMATE IS CHANGING

Our environment is changing now more than ever and the evidence is startling.

  • Nineteen out of the twenty hottest years in history have occured since 2001.
  • The sea level is raising at an average of 3.3 millimeters per year, rising seven inches just in the last hundred years.
  • The september arctic ice is decling at an average of 12.85 percent per decade.

    • Source: NASA

    Photo by Rolands Varsbergs on Unsplash

    WHAT CAUSED THIS

    Climate changes are normal. The temperature of the earth fluctuates, but there has never been global warming to this extent before the mid 20th century.

  • Greenhouse gases generated by burning fossil fuels
  • Deforestation
  • Fertlizer use
  • Livestock production
  • Exessive landfill
  • Use and production of plastic
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    Sources: NRDC, WWF

    Photo by Christopher Rusev on Unsplash

    EFFECTS ON HUMANS & WILDLIFE

    HUMANS

  • Increase in potential deaths from cold or heat ( heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, and hyperthermia in heat & hypothermia and frostbite in the cold
  • Increased allergic responses and asthma episodes
  • Extreme natural disasters
  • Lower levels of necessary minerals and vitamins in food from increased concentrations of carbon dioxide

    • WILDLIFE

  • Exinction of animals
  • Biodiversity at risk
  • Habitat destruction (e.g. Polar bears face possible extinction due to the depletion of their sea ice habitat)
  • Increased growth of toxic and invasive plants and insects
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    Sources: Global Change , WWF, NWF

    Photo by Etienne Bösiger on Unsplash