Book Review

What's Really Happening To Our Planet?
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Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share my thoughts and ideas of a book I have. This book is written by Tony Juniper, and it is named, 'What's Really Happening To Our Planet?'. Tony Juniper has been sharing information about the dramatic changes that have been happening on Earth. In this video, you can hear some of the numbers that can help you understand the changes that are going on today.

10 Quick Facts About Climate Change from Tony Juniper

1. Since 1950, the world’s population has tripled
2. The number of cities with a population of over 10 million people was: one in 1950, ten in 1990, and is twenty-eight today
3. Global energy demand is expected to double by 2030 compared to 1990 (with most new capacity coming from renewable sources)
4. Only about 1/4 of the planet’s agricultural land is being used to grow crops, the rest is being used to raise animals
5. About 97.5% of the planet’s total water resources are saltwater, about 0.3% is liquid water at the surface, the rest is locked in groundwater and ice caps
6. Since 1900, the consumption of construction materials, metals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass has increased tenfold
7. Carbon dioxide concentrations in the planet’s atmosphere are higher now than at any point in at least the last 800,000 years
8. Ten thousand years ago, 99.9% of vertebrate biomass was composed of wild animals; today, 96% of vertebrate biomass is made up of people and their domesticated animals
9. The rate of animal and plant extinction taking place on the planet today is approaching a rate not seen on earth for 65 million years
10. Since 1962, the area of protected habitat on the planet, in the form of national parks and nature reserves, has increased fourteenfold, to reach more than 33 million square kilometres