The outlook does not look good for planet Earth in the coming decades. The world’s ecosystems are suffering unprecedented deterioration, and many scientists believe that the deadline to change the situation is 2030.
The UN released a report presented in Nairobi, and originally made public in May, which anticipates catastrophic events for the human race. and many of the world’s animals and plants.
According to the report, if the climate change trend is not reversed, by 2050 the Earth could experience a temperature increase of up to 3 °C, a figure that represents very bad news for our civilization and the world’s ecosystems.
If drastic and significant measures are not taken, by the year 2050 the Arctic ice cap will have melted and the extent of deserts will have increased, causing climatic and ecological chaos around the world.
According to the report, humanity will experience the desertification of habitats, the destruction of ecosystems such as coral reefs and rainforests, miles of green land will succumb to forest fires, and the agricultural systems of the tropics will disappear completely. .
As a result, one billion inhabitants of the tropics will become refugees without food. In addition, it is believed that multiple armed conflicts will break out as a result of the scarcity of resources.
This is the forecast presented by the UN report, and although it seems to come out of a movie about natural disasters, the situations it draws are nothing more than an extension of what is already experienced throughout the world.
Climate catastrophe would turn hundreds of millions of people into refugees.
What can we do to prevent it?
Experts advise taking immediate measures to deal with the crisis of destruction of ecosystems that we are observing. The current rate of response from legislators and governments around the world is insufficient to meet the challenge before us.
As a first step, the UN advises reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40%, and then continue reducing them as solutions are offered to other problems such as overpopulation, deforestation and habitat destruction.
The predictions show us a very undesirable future, but we still have time to reverse the trend. It depends on us!
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