
Global Emissions
The Science of a Healthy Life
While we all, actually do care about making life and this planet healthier and better for our own personal need at least. A lot of people still prefer putting the blame and need for change, solely on others. So did you know that the top ten biggest national polluters are causing 72% of global greenhouse gas emissions. While the bottom 100 only contribute in total 3 percent or less.
Yes, we all need to improve our way of life. And we all need to work hard to create a more equal world, a healthier, a less polluted, more efficient and more sustainable world. We all are needed to achieve that.
Today and especially so in the rapidly approaching world of tomorrow.
But the biggest problem makers are the ones that needs to provide the biggest changes, because their problems are not theirs alone, they are so influential that they are global problem makers and as such it is crucial for us all that they implement the biggest changes.
Russia for instance is ranked as number 5 with energy Emissions of
2086.5 Mt CO₂e(4.82% of global greenhouse gas emissions). And USA and China are ranked number two and 1 respectively.
Europe is as a whole number three on the bad guy list, but Europe is of course in reality made up of an ever growing list of developed nations and if you break down Europe on a national level, it is the place on Earth with the cleanest and most sustainable and green nations on this planet. But as a whole, Europe still have to improve a lot of things, Germany for instance have to stop using coal to produce energy.
“Climate change is no longer about protecting the world for our children and grandchildren, it is about the reality that we are living with right now. We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.
I don’t want my grandkids not to be able to swim in Hawaii or climb a mountain and see a glacier because we didn’t do something about it,”
Barack Obama, President of the United States

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The Zoomed out picture of Global emissions, bottom vs Top
Since my individual health is directly and indirectly linked to our global health and vice versa. It is always important to always look at the zoomed out bigger global view as well as to focus individually on each person, nation and corporation. Both to find the corresponding causes as well as to find a healthy and sane way forward. From climate change and it´s cause and effect, to the approaching automated society and world we all share, not only will our world as we know it rapidly change when it comes to food production, but our population is growing, our age and lifespan is increasing, our finite resources are dwindling (and that accounts for metals and minerals too), and the amount of people actually having a paid job will too decrease in an ever increasing rate.
Neither of this is bad in anyway. But it requires a more sustainable, healthy and equal world, and a rapid change from top to bottom. From economy to production, consumption and energy.
Climate Reality | ||
Renewable investment (US Numbers) costs $8.4bn, but creates a positive $54bn | World Bank: clean energy is the solution to poverty, not coal | 3.5m solar homes systems have been installed in rural Bangladesh, creating 70,000 direct jobs |
Globally, we lose about three times the ice volume stored in the entirety of the European Alps every year | Top 10 emitters contribute 72 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions | |
Expect 11.2 billion population by the end of the century | The lowest 100 emitters contribute less than 3 percent. | |
In 1960, freshwater and coastal aquatic ecosystems had less than 24 reported dead zones. | Today, dead zones number more than 500. |
Health and Climate Reality
Data by World Resources Institute
Barack Obama, a memo to the world, for the health of the world, today and tomorrow.
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