....Per capita freshwater availability is less than half of levels of the early 1960s....
....Coastal dead zones which are mainly caused by fertilizer runoff and fossil-fuel use, are killing large swaths of marine life....
....Total forest area decreased from 4,128 to 3,999 million hectares from 1990 to 2015, a net loss of 129 million hectares which is approximately the size of South Africa, in 25 years....
....Freshwater, marine, and terrestrial populations declined by 81%, 36%, and 35% respectively....
....The most recent year of data, 2016, ranks as the warmest on record....
....There is a high likelihood that the world population will grow from 7.2 billon people now to between 9.6 and 12.3 billon by 2100....
....A World Bank Group report says the worsening impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America could mean that by 2050 more than 140 million climate change refugees will have been forced to move within their own countries’ borders, creating a human crisis and threatening development....
....Intact forest is now being destroyed at an annual rate that threatens to cancel out any attempts to contain global warming by controlling greenhouse gas emissions.....
