Climate collapse
A recent scientific review of 180 articles on the human death rate of climate change has conservatively estimated that a billion people could die from climate catastrophes over the next century.[1] In the ongoing sixth mass extinction, greenhouse gas concentrations are flooding the atmospehre at a rate 10x faster than all recorded extinction events in our planet's history.[2]
In 2019, Branch Out reported that[3]:
"If the necessary transitions to avoid total climate collapse do not occur, we risk a billion refugees being forced from their homes by 2050 due to sea-level rise, drought, famine, and other extreme weather disasters, amidst major health crises around the world.[4] For example, scientists are now predicting that an additional one billion people could be exposed to the potentially lethal mosquito-borne Dengue Fever, for which the incidence has already increased by 10% due to global warming.[5] If humanity does not reverse course, 500 million people will face lethal heatwaves on a regular basis and billions of people will soon run out of fresh water.[6][7]
Sources
- ↑ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-warn-1-billion-people-on-track-to-die-from-climate-change
- ↑ https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2019/12/10/modern-climate-change-is-10x-faster-than-historic-global-warming-mass-extinction-events/
- ↑ https://branchoutnow.org/living-amidst-climate-collapse/
- ↑ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/10/31/lancet-study-warns-global-health-crisis-and-1-billion-climate-refugees-2050
- ↑ http://gumc.georgetown.edu/news-release/a-billion-people-will-be-newly-exposed-to-diseases-like-dengue-fever-as-world-temperatures-rise
- ↑ http://climateguide.nl/2019/03/09/non-survivable-humid-heat-for-over-500-million-people
- ↑ https://qz.com/india/1547137/melting-himalayan-glaciers-put-2-billion-south-asian-lives-at-risk/