Luke H.
Graphic design & animation
Oil plants disrupt wildlife, and oil spills have killed millions of animals. The air and water pollution are harmful not only to animals but to us, and oil drilling is a huge factor in climate change. In the last thirty years, humans have cut down over half of all the trees on Earth, and we have lost over 500,000 square miles of rainforest and jungle. That’s one football field of trees cut down every second, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. CO2 emissions are up almost 75% since 1990. Air pollution is attributed to 9% of deaths annually, it’s one of the worlds leading factors in death and diseases. Poachers kill thousands of endangered animals every day, and around 30,000 species of animal are driven to extinction each year, many of which we didn’t know existed. That’s almost 3 species every hour. On average, 100 African elephants are killed by poachers every day. Within the last hundred years, the wild tiger population has gone from over 100,000 to less than 4,000. 38 animals are illegally taken from the amazon every year. Over 100 million sharks are killed every year. The United States produces 250 million tons of trash every year. The US recycling rate is around 34%. If we recycled all of the 75% of our trash that is recyclable, it would have the same effect as removing 50 million passenger cars from US roadways. There are 25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean. Of that, 270,000 tons float on the surface, while some four billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer litter the deep sea. There is an island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas. 39 millions cows are killed every year, along with 120 million pigs, 50 billion chickens, excluding eggs, and 300 million turkeys. More animals are going extinct now than ever before. Our planet is hotter than ever before. The wild places on our planet are smaller than ever before. Our oceans are dirtier than ever before.
Our system isn’t working, and we need to update it.
