The environment supplies our most vital resources, yet is also our most threatened asset. As our growing population and resource-intensive economies continue to expand, the environment is being strained to the point of collapse. By searching for, creating, and supporting sustainable solutions to our current problems, we can create a better, safer, and more desirable future for ourselves. By looking at issues like Climate Change, it’s clear that decisive and substantial help is needed.
- It takes carbon dioxide 100 years to filter out of the atmosphere.
- The 1980′s and 90′s were the hottest decades in at least 400 years.
- The years from 1995-2006 were the warmest ever recorded.
- Climate change is responsible for 150,000 deaths each year through extreme heat and drought, famine, and the heightened spread of diseases.
- If emissions are not lowered, climate change will exterminate more than a million species and coral reefs will completely disappear by 2050.
- The present carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is approximately 30% above anything the atmosphere has experienced in at least the last 800,000 years; from 2000-2030, CO2 emissions are predicted to increase by 40-110%.
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Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is headquartered in San Francisco, California with staff in Tokyo… |
$5,600,000 | Give now |
1Sky is a highly collaborative national campaign in the United States building a society-wide movement |
$4,014,000 | Give now |