Why Support Us
Why Support Us
The slowness of climate change is deceiving which makes it easy to deny.The truth is it’s here. And beginning to cause irreversible damage. Reducing carbon dioxide is the most important task at hand to combat climate change and we can help you do that.
CARBON DIOXIDE
There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than there has been in the last 15 million years. There were no humans then and the oceans were a hundred feet higher.
WILD FIRE
2020, wildfires in Australia burned 27 million acres (area larger than Portugal), killed 29 people, destroyed 2500 homes, 1.25 billion animal deaths, long term damage to several and economic damage exceeding $4.4 billion.
NO WATER
March 2018, ‘Day Zero’ no water declared in Cape Town, South Africa (developed economy). Water was rationed for 6 months. In India, 21 cities could exhaust their groundwater supply in the next 2 years (groundwater is a non-renewable resource). 70% of the water supply for agriculture in India today is groundwater.
CLIMATE WARS
Sudan’s civil war is the first example of modern climate change induced conflict. Desertification, dwindling rainfall and drought caused by rising temperatures have caused food and water insecurities. Which resulted in rebellion and the country broke out into civil war.
HEAT
Of the top 20 hottest years ever recorded, 16 have occurred in the last two decades. 2018 and 2019 being the hottest. The 2003 European heat wave killing 35,000 people.
SEA LEVEL RISE
2019, Indonesia relocates capital from Jakarta (population 11 million) to Borneo as Jakarta will be underwater by 2050 due to rising sea levels. Worldwide more than 600 million people live within 30 feet from the sea.
FEEDBACK LOOPS
In the Arctic, methane is found in permafrost. As permafrost thaw thanks to climate change, the methane within is released into the atmosphere. Methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas. it’s around 120 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat. The frozen Arctic soil holds an estimated 1,460 to 1,600 billion tons of trapped carbon – almost twice the amount of GHGs currently in the atmosphere.
DYING OCEANS
Half of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached to death since 2016. Mass coral bleaching, a global problem triggered by climate change, occurs when unnaturally hot ocean water destroys a reef’s colorful algae, leaving the coral to starve. The Great Barrier Reef illustrates how extensive the damage to oceans caused by climate change.
