Environmental dangers

Global environmental issues facing us in the 21st Century:

• Population explosion
• Overgrazing
• Depletion of fisheries
• Deforestation
• Land and soil erosion
• Depletion of natural resources
• Waste management
• Climate change
• Space junk
• Ocean acidification
• Loss of biological diversity
• Water shortage

Did you know ...

• 50% of the world's population depends on fish and other sea life for its protein
• 40% of fish congregate at coral reefs
• Coral cannot survive if water temperatures rise above 28 degrees Celsius (82.4 degrees Fahrenheit)
• Our biological diversity is disappearing 100 times faster than the natural rate
• The only compound in the world that comes in three different forms is water, ice, vapor
• 97% of water on our planet is salt water, 3% is fresh water, though not necessarily clean water 
• Desalination of water is expensive and results in oversupply of salt that is usually dumped back into the ocean, upsetting the balance of nature.