Environment

This is just the tip of the iceberg

• U.S. weather and climate-related disasters reached $145 billion in 2021, with the top 20 storms costing more than $1 billion each. S&P Global

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• At our current rate of natural resource consumption and environmental destruction, we will need the resources of three Earths by 2050. UN

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• As of 2018, energy was responsible for more than 73% of global GHGs.

  • 32% of that is from electricity and heating alone

  • "greenhouse gas emissions from energy rose to their highest ever level in 2021," with the biggest increase in electricity and heating iea

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• Nearly 26% of all emissions are from food production Our World in Data

  • nearly 60% of that is from meat and dairy. The Guardian

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• Less than 9% of all plastic, ever produced, has been recycled. C2ES

  • At its increasing rate of production, emissions from plastic will be greater than coal by 2030. Reuters

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• On August 1, 2019, Greenland lost 12.5 billion tons of ice in one day.

  • that summer, Arctic sea ice was 47% smaller than the previous 40-year average.

  • "The 13 smallest summer lows on record for Arctic sea ice have all occurred in the last 13 years." The World Counts​

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• Every year, about 1.3 billion metric tons (nearly 3 trillion pounds) of food are wasted. 

  • Food waste from the U.S. and E.U. alone could feed the entire world population three times over...

  • yet there is still so much extreme poverty that 9 million people die from hunger every year. The World Counts

  • Food waste accounts for 6% of global emissions - nearly as much as the entire airline industry. Our World in Data​

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• Nearly 80% of fisheries worldwide are depleted - 90% of "large predatory fish, such as sharks, tuna, marlin, and swordfish, are already gone!

  • if the rate of overfishing does not change, studies confirm that seafood will run out by 2048. The World Counts​​

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• Over the past five centuries, 900 hundred species have gone extinct...

  • today, over 35,000 species – a mere fraction of those yet to be evaluated – are threatened with extinction. Our World in Data

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• In the first four months of 2022 alone, there have been nearly 60 trillion and 90 million hours, respectively, of slave and child labor. The World Counts