2024 was the hottest year on record. The planet surpassed the warming threshold set by the Paris Agreement: 1.5 C / 2.7 F above pre-Industrialized levels.
This warming will lead to several tipping points:
The collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
The altering of ocean currents.
Mass deforestation.
Droughts.
Heat waves.
Flooding.
Wildfires.
Extreme weather.
We are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.
There are nine planetary boundaries that make Earth habitable for humans.
Two are in the orange zone: Climate change and land system change.
Two are in the red zone: Biosphere integrity and bio geo-chemical flows.
And two we don’t even have the data to determine yet: atmospheric aerosol loading and the impact of plastics and other pollutants.
On November 15, 2022, the world population reached 8 billion.
It is expected to reach 9 billion by the year 2037, just 15 years from now.
On January 20, 2025, the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Overconsumption and overpopulation has pushed our planet to the tipping point–a point of no return.