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Environmental Challenges: Why We All Need to Take Action

Why we need to Act?

Economic, environmental, political and social factors are inherently linked, and, like strands on a web, tension placed upon one factor can reverberate through to others.

Here are some of the reasons why we need to take action:
  • The world is changing. The past few decades have been some of the hottest in recorded history as a consequences of human expansion of the "greenhouse effect", with the global average surface temperature in 2015 reaching a milestone increase of 87 degree Celsius above the baseline average in 1951.

  •  Our health is at risk. Climate changes leading to weather events such as heatwaves, long-term droughts and floods,will have a strong impact upon human health. Furthermore, air pollution created from the burning of fossil fuels causes a range of illness including lung disease and lung cancer.

  •  Our rights to a healthy environment are at a risk. Damaging environmental practices, which may result in outcomes such as a lack of access to food, clean air and water. are considered to infringe upon human rights.

  • Our rights to a healthy environment are at risk. Damaging environmental practices, which may result in outcomes such as a lack of access to food, clean air and water.

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