Explore what’s at risk of disappearing as the climate crisis rapidly alters our world.

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Nowhere is safe from the climate crisis as it drives up temperatures and fuels extreme weather that devastates communities and pushes plant and animal species to the brink.

 

The past eight years were the hottest on record. The growing concentration of planet-heating pollution is sending our world barreling toward irreversible climate tipping points, beyond which some of the most iconic species and ecosystems may no longer be salvageable.

 

Climate change is by no means the only threat many of them face – most are at risk from a slew of other, often human-caused, problems – but its pervasive influence is increasing and adding pressure they can ill-afford.

 

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[OneMoreFarang]

Imagine there would have been humans on earth when the last ice age ended.

What would they have predicted? Rising water levels and total destruction within 50 years or so?

Somehow it seems life adapted to different climate - since a very long time.

 

 

[ozimoron]

39 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Imagine there would have been humans on earth when the last ice age ended.

What would they have predicted? Rising water levels and total destruction within 50 years or so?

Somehow it seems life adapted to different climate - since a very long time.

You;re confusing adaption with evolution. There's no evidence that animals have ever adapted to climate change and the rate of extinction supports that. Animals and humans evolve but very slowly. Do you imagine that humans could evolve to withstand climate change? Or animals? There's no way, especially in the century or so we have left on Earth if we don't fix the problem.

 

Nobody said total destruction in 50 years, they said widespread destruction of habitat. Wars over arable land, water and food.