A SICK PLANET

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A SICK PLANET
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SYMPTOMS

• Global climate change
• Rising average temperatures
• Rising sea level
• Melting polar ice
• Warming oceans
• Rising use of fossil fuels appetite for oil
  increasing

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SYMPTOMS

• Loss of two billion tons of topsoil each year due
  to wind and water erosion
• Washing into mouths of rivers causing dead
  zones

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SYMPTOMS

• Polluted water and air
• Synthetic (man-made) chemicals ending up in
  atmosphere and hydrosphere

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SYMPTOMS

• Diminishing biodiversity
• Worldwide habitat destruction
• Ecosystems in danger
• Colony-Collapse Disorder

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SYMPTOMS

• Destruction of tropical rain forests and marine
  ecosystems
• More forest fires in the temperate zone

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SYMPTOMS

• Destruction of worlds coral reefs
• Bleaching of polyps due to increased solar
  radiation warmer water
• Killed when fishermen use explosives cyanide to
  kill fish

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SYMPTOMS

• Amphibians on the decline more deformities
• Frogs, toads, salamanders disappearing world-wide
• In danger now
• 12 of 10,000 bird species
• 24 of 4,763 mammal species
• 30 of 25,000 fish species

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SYMPTOMS

• Collapse of most of the worlds oceanic fisheries
• Populations of tuna, groupers and cod are
  plummeting.
• We are spending our savings of ocean food
  resources.

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SYMPTOMS

• Four in ten species of freshwater fish in N.
  America are in danger.
• 457 species are in trouble or already extinct.
• These are silent extinctions.

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SYMPTOMS

• Holes in the earths ozone layer
• Stratospheric ozone filters out harmful UV rays.
• On the mend due to phasing out of CFCs repaired
  by 2050?

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SYMPTOMS

• Disappearing wetlands
• Being drained for agriculture, dams and
  development
• 50 destroyed in past century

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SYMPTOMS

• Extreme water shortages and shrinking water
  tables
• Rivers run dry before they get to the sea
• Rio Grande ran dry at its mouth last year.

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SYMPTOMS

• More destructive storms due to rising
  temperatures
• Hurricanes more frequent violent
• Frequency of severe storms also increasing
• Tornadoes out-of-season

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SYMPTOMS

• Deteriorating range lands
• Support worlds 3.3 billion cattle, sheep and
  goats
• Half of grasslands moderately degraded

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SYMPTOMS

• Disappearing species
• Have had five great extinctions so far
• Now in early stages of 6th
• Loss of species is weakening the web of life.

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DIAGNOSIS

• People-itis!

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PEOPLE-ITIS

• Currently 6.7 billion people on the planet
• Adding 73 million per year (net increase)
• 1.1 billion are undernourished
• India alone adds 21 million per year - another
  Australia!

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PEOPLE-ITIS

• Each time your heart beats once, three new hearts
  begin to beat for the first time!
• Stop at two!

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WARNING

• Q Why didnt scientists warn us?
• A They did. Many times. We ignored their
  warnings.

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What Should We Do?

• Take better care of the earth.
• Use all forms of energy more efficiently.
• Use more energy from the sun
• Wind
• Hydrogen
• Water
• Stop at two kids.

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What Shouldnt We Do?

• Waste any more time
• Wish upon a star
• Disneys First Law
• Wishing will not make it so!