No one can be in any doubt that the relationship between us and the planet is dangerously unbalanced. All around us, nature – which we depend on for so much – is being degraded at an alarmingly high rate, the result of human activities such as climate-changing carbon emissions, deforestation and pollution. Our planet is in the red. We’re consuming as if we had 1.6 Earths available to us, and the effect of environmental change is wreaking havoc on human social and economic well-being. We must absolutely stop taking nature for granted. Our planet is under attack and here are some of the scariest issues we are facing now: - By 2050 there could be more plastic than fish in the sea
- Population sizes of wildlife have decreased by 60 per cent on average globally in recent decades (see our Living Planet Report 2018)
- An area of land equal in size to a football pitch is lost in the Amazon forest every minute
- The global average sea level has risen by 16-21 cm since 1900 and at a rate of over 3 mm per year over the past two decades
- 50 per cent of habitat destruction from food production happens in grasslands and savannas
- 66 per cent of the world’s population faces water shortages for at least one month each year.
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