15 Current Facts And Possible Futures Regarding Climate Change, Which Should Terrify You

I’m currently reading David Wallace-Wells’s “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.” To say it’s terrifying is a profound understatement. It’s hard to overstate how much we’ve damaged the planet and how much human suffering and death we’re in for in the near future. (Of course, if you’re paying attention, climate change has already started to cause much suffering, destruction, and death).

But to turn to specifics: here are 15 current facts and projections for the future from Wallace-Wells’s book that I found particularly terrifying. I share them to illuminate, edifying and provoke those who read it.

1. 400 parts per million in carbon was widely seen as the point of no return to avoid earth-wide devastation. We as a species blew past that in 2013 and recently hit 415 parts per a million for the first time in human history.
2. Climate Change is helping cause the extinction of untold animal species. For example, according to the World Wildlife Fund, in the last 40 years more than half of the world’s vertebrate animals have died.
3. Since 1980, the planet has…