Climate Change & Environmental Issues

Water Pollution- DID YOU KNOW?

~About 70% of industrial waste is dunmped to water.

~More than 6 billion pounds of garbage, mainly plastic end up in the oceans every year.

~15 million children under the age of five years die every year from diseases caused by drinking contaminated water.

~In America 40% of rivers and 46% of the lakes are polluted and unsuitable for swimming, fishing or any other activity.

~Over 100,000 marine animals die every year from plastic entanglement and ingestion.

Air Polltuion- DID YOU KNOW?

~More than nine out of 10 of the world’s population – 92% – lives in places where air pollution exceeds safe limits

~Air pollution is the fourth-largest threat to human health, behind high blood pressure, dietary risks and smoking.

~Almost all deaths (94%) linked to air pollution occur in low- and middle-income countries

~13 million hectares of forest have been converted for other uses or destroyed by natural causes.

~Up to 28,000 species can go extinct in the next quarter century due to deforestation.

~By the year 2030, we might only have 10% of Rainforests left and it can all disappear in a hundred years.

~Tropical Rainforests store more than 210 gigatons of carbon and deforestation is the cause of 15% of carbon emissions.

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