Hot! Hot! Hot!
This is how I feel this summer and many people around me.
But what I'm going to talk about today is several times more urgent and serious than the heat we feel:
The earth is burning.
Many wild animals will not survive the climate upheaval of global warming.
Here I will first explain global warming, which is a form of climate change. Under the greenhouse effect, the Earth's temperature rises.
Human activity is the main perpetrator of this change.
If you read the following report on the deaths of wild animals under global warming, you will understand this heart-wrenching.
September 2019
Swabat, Norway
More than 200 reindeer were starved to death.
Under the influence of global warming, there is more rain in the winter, it freezes, and they cannot eat food under the ice.
January 2016
Harley Bay, Antarctica
More than 1,000 penguin children drowned.
The ice melts early, and the newborn penguins have not yet learned to swim.
What makes me saddest the most is this one.
September 2019
Botswana, Africa
Countless herds of horses and hippos were trapped in the mud and could not get out.
Calves and fawns can only be buried in the soil and die.
As you might imagine, it was originally a lake, and animals came here to find water and food.
They did not expect that under global warming, drought in Africa would intensify and lakes would dry up.
What awaits them is a death that cannot be broken.
Photographer Martin Harvey captured these images almost with agony.
He described it as a "mental trauma."
"The terrible smell and the pain of the animals made me emotionally broken."
Many more animals are suffering from this chronic, neglected suffering.
A 2015 study published by Science magazine warns of the hearts of all of humanity:
If humans do not act again, one in six species will be at risk of extinction by 2100.
Once it comes true,
This will be the most widespread and terrible catastrophe on Earth.
When I looked up the information, I also had a heartache feeling:
Global warming is by no means a distant four words in the textbook, it is very close to us.
A fever that never sets back sweeps the planet.
It was a recent wildfire in California, where overnight the fire stained the forest blood red.
More than 6,000 people were evacuated.
But you may not know that there are more than 3,000 years of spruces growing here.
It is also home to mountain lions, maned wolves and swamp deer.
They can only watch as their familiar home is burned to ashes and cannot escape.
All kinds of "sequelae" that you can't imagine are also happening.
Especially the North and South Poles.
Antarctica turns green and red. In some places, a blood-red river is even formed, just like the scene of a horror movie.
Some people may want to ask, is the ecology getting better?
No.
It is too high a temperature, and an algae that is dormant at low temperatures begins to multiply.
The Arctic is equally worrisome.
The permafrost melted and the greenhouse gas methane was grunting and releasing.
If they are all released, the heating is even more unimaginable.
There is also the terrible fact that glaciers around the world are melting at an accelerated rate.
The scientists provided a statistic.
Greenland, the world's largest island, loses as much as 6 billion tons of ice every day.
Enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic pools.
And that's just the amount of ice melted in three days from July 15 to July 17 this year.
I can't help but think of a glacier in Norway whose face I can never forget.
It is naturally formed in the process of melting and collapsing, a sad crying face.
It's crying.
Many glaciers around the world are crying.
How much impact will glacier melting affect arctic and antarctic animals?
You may not know that for many polar animals, ice floes and ice sheets are their home.
They breed, roost, and hunt on ice.
What about now?
With no home, two polar bears live in an abandoned weather monitoring station in Russia.
He slammed into the window and looked at this strange home with trepidation.
With no home left, more than 100,000 walruses are crammed onto one of Russia's shores.
It's so crowded that if you're not careful, the newborn baby walrus will be trampled to death.
The last scene of the Antarctic chapter of the documentary "Seven Worlds, One Planet", I would love to let you watch it again.
The photographer looked at the receding glacier, thought of the future of the animals, choked, and looked down to wipe away the tears:
"It's really a special place.
I just hope we can keep this place.
Protect them. ”
But even more heartbreaking is:
Like a rumbling and collapsing glacier,
If we do not act again, many species of life may enter the countdown.
This is a news item that many people overlook:
On Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the sex of 100,000 baby sea turtles is being affected by rising seawater.
The reason is simple, the sex of sea turtles is determined by the temperature at which they hatch their eggs.
At high temperatures, "girls" are hatched and conversely "boys".
This set of data shocked scientists:
Australia's Rennes Island, the world's largest habitat for green sea turtles, has been born almost exclusively of "girls" in the past 20 years.
The sex ratio between females and males is staggering 116:1.
If the situation continues to deteriorate, we will lose this docile, timid animal permanently.
Also facing the dilemma is Australia's koala.
This is the most sad picture of the fire in Australia.
A surviving little koala curled up in a corner with its head in her arms, like a homeless child.
After confirming the escape, he approached the cup handed by the rescuer and took a small sip of water.
Seeing this scene, many people in the barrage couldn't help but cry.
But there are two messages you may not know.
One is that a wildfire that lasted 4 months killed more than 20,000 of its companions.
Another is that before wildfires occurred, they were included in the IUCN list of species most affected by climate change.
As carbon dioxide increases, the leaves of eucalyptus, which they love to eat, have less nutrient content.
They can get nutritionally out of balance or even starve to death.
And the one that broke my heart the most was the polar bear.
Every time I've seen similar news on the hot search, I can't help but sour my nose:
In a city in northern Russia, a herd of polar bears hijacked a garbage truck that had broken down.
Big Bear tiptoed up and climbed into the garbage truck and rummaged through the truck full of garbage.
The bear couldn't climb up and circled around the car, anxiously waiting.
They are hopeful that they will find food.
But what can you find in the car?
Human garbage.
The Russian media gave a harsh conclusion that garbage became the main food for polar bears due to the melting of glaciers.
But today I want to tell you that the threat of starvation in polar bears is much more than that.
As the sea ice continues to melt, it is becoming increasingly difficult for polar bears to hunt and reproduce.
Nature's prediction two years ago was like a countdown to polar bear life:
If global greenhouse gas emissions remain the same, polar bears could become extinct by 2100.
That said, this may be the countdown to 78 years since we've spent with them.
If we don't change any more, the number of animals on this list will continue to increase.
The next one who leaves us, the next one who leaves,
Who will it be?
So this warning from World Climate Organization spokesman Naris, I must repeat it today:
"What we are experiencing so far is only a harbinger of the future."
If we don't do anything more, the burning will eventually burn on humans.
You may feel the same way, we've had enough of one "hottest summer ever" after another.
A few days ago, there was an unbelievable scene on the hot search:
Greenland, which is mostly located within the Arctic Circle, reached a maximum temperature of 15.5 degrees Celsius on the day.
A reporter from a television station in the United States even wore short sleeves and stood in front of the ice and snow to broadcast the news.
Scientists in the Arctic, wearing short-sleeved shorts, played ice volleyball.
If we don't "put out" this protracted burning, this is the dark future we will usher in with animals:
Extreme weather is more.
Some low-lying cities were submerged.
Pictured: A simulation of the submerged city of Shanghai
Viruses that have been frozen for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years will be released...
Humanity, the main culprit of this disaster, cannot be lucky.
Finally, I would like to share with you a special funeral featuring a glacier in Iceland called Okjökull.
You may have heard another name for it, which is cute, called OK Glacier.
Compared with humans, it is super old, 700 years old.
But it melted almost completely in 2014 and was removed from the glacier list.
In August 2019, more than 100 Icelanders gathered at the foot of this once-vast glacier for a solemn funeral.
Icelandic writers, politicians and students came, as did the Prime Minister of Iceland.
People carved a number on its tombstone, "415 ppm CO2", which is the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration measured that year.
There is also a letter, "A Letter to the Future".
I think it is written to you, to me, and to all of us:
"This monument was erected to inform,
We know what's going on.
and what should be done;
And only the future of you,
Know if we did what we should have done. ”
Yeah, what exactly have we humans done?
It's time to ask ourselves.
Written by: Deng Yaya
Editor-in-Charge: Tintin
Vespers Hours:
"This is a critical time,
The decision we're making now,
will affect the future of all animals,
To be precise, all life on Earth,
Including us humans. ”
- "Seven Worlds, One Planet"