Aside from carbon emissions, drastic biodiversity loss, resource extractivism, and water and air pollution all pose serious threats to our way of life.
The status of the environmental crisis is clear: without immediate and drastic action to revolutionise our economic models, the world will surpass the 2C mark of global warming by 2030 and even reach the 4-5C mark by 2100. Even if the non-binding targets set in the 2015 Paris Agreement were met, it would only limit heating to between 2 and 4.5C. Aside from carbon emissions, drastic biodiversity loss, resource extractivism, and water and air pollution all pose serious threats to our way of life.