Not only living beings like humans, the Earth also has important signs. Worse, the vital signs of our planet are said by scientists to be weakening due to human activity.
Let’s just say a global business process that still doesn’t pay much attention to climate change, so that carbon emissions can’t be suppressed so that the Earth’s vital signs are declining. Even scientists fear that some damage to the Earth will soon reach irreparable levels.
As quoted by AFP, as many as 14,000 scientists declared a global climate emergency and stated that governments have consistently failed to find a solution to the problem of climate change, namely the over-exploitation of the Earth.
They recorded large increases in climate -related disasters, such as floods in South America and Southeast Asia, recorded heat waves and wildfires in Australia and the United States, and then hurricanes in Africa and South Asia.
From various important signs of Earth’s health including greenhouse gas emission factors, glacier thickness to deforestation, 18 of them reached their highest or lowest levels. For example, despite a decrease in pollution caused by the pandemic, CO2 and methane rates will still be record highs in 2021.
Then the ice masses of Greenland and Antarctica then reach their lowest point. Not to mention glaciers are melting 31% faster than 15 years ago.
Conversely, ocean and sea -level warming has also increased since 2019. Amazon deforestation reached its highest level in 2020. As a result, the Amazon is currently a source of carbon rather than absorbing harmful gases from the atmosphere.
“We need to respond to this evidence that we are entering an irreversible climate point that requires urgent action to dismantle the global economy and start improving the nature of the earth rather than destroying it,” said Tim Lenton, director of the University of Exeter’s Institute of Global Systems and one of the study’s authors.
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