Amazing Environmental facts
- Up to half of all food produced is lost or wasted before or after it reaches consumers.
- By 2070, the world’s coral reefs could be gone altogether.
- Nearly 80% of the world’s fisheries are fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted, or in a state of collapse. Globally, 90% of large predatory fish, such as sharks and tuna are gone.
- The equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our oceans every single minute. By 2030, it will be two truckloads per minute and by 2050, four.
- By 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans.
- By 2050, 4 out of 10 people in the world population will live in areas of severe water stress.
- The speed of groundwater pollution doubled between 1960 and 2000.
- Cotton production requires so much water that it emptied a whole sea (the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan). It has been called one of the worst environmental disasters in history.
- We use 5 trillion plastic bags a year That’s about 160,000 bags a second.
- According to a 2018 article in Nature Magazine, the Great Pacific Plastic Garbage Patch stretches 1.6 million km2. That’s the size of Iran or over twice the size of Texas .
- Mining is considered the world’s Number One Toxic Polluter. Steel production, for example, results in 80 tons of toxic wastewater for each ton of steel produced.
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Synthetic chemicals are seriously messing with the human body
- More than 250 billion tonnes of chemicals are produced a year. According to OECD projections, the global production of synthetic chemicals will increase a massive six times between 2000 and 2050.
- Pollution by endocrine disruptors such as polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) has distorted the sex-ratio of newborns. Up to two thirds of babies born are girls in the most polluted areas.
