Investments & Pensions Europe (January Issue)
“The scientific evidence is unequivocal that if humanity continues along its current path, it is likely that, by 2100, global average temperatures will rise by between 2.7°C and 3.6°C. A rise of 4°C could lead to a cost of as much as $31trn (€29trn) per year in 2100… apart from the costs of loss of life and destruction of habitats.”
Tags: $31trn (€29trn), 2100, 4°C, Destruction, Evidence, Habitats, Humanity, Loss of life, Rise, Scientific, Temperatures, Unequivocal
Washington Post (April 28)
“Not since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs—along with at least half of all other beings on Earth—has life in the ocean been so at risk. Warming waters are cooking creatures in their own habitats…. If humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase…roughly a third of all marine animals could vanish within 300 years.”
Tags: Asteroid, Dinosaurs, Earth, Emissions, GHG, Habitats, Humanity, Life, Marine animals, Ocean, Risk, Vanish, Warming waters
New York Times (October 11)
What “will become of all the species the planet stands to lose… if human beings cannot halt the rate at which our climate is heating and our habitats are fragmenting and our whole planet is being poisoned?” While it is “entirely possible that we will lose them all…. It’s also not unthinkable that we will yet find a way to work together to prevent the worst calamities from unfolding.”
Tags: Calamities, Climate, Habitats, Human beings, pecies, Planet, Poisoned, Prevent, Unthinkable, Work together
