Frightening Things about our Planet
 
Sir David Attenborough is about to start a new TV series here in the UK, and he says the outlook for our planet is very bleak indeed. Listed here are the ten major reasons why:
 
  1. The world population stands at six billion and is due to double in 50 years time.

  2. Each year, humans use up 25 - 50 per cent of all new plant growth on the planet.

  3. Forty per cent of the North Pole ice cap has melted away in the last 50 years.

  4. Global warming is being blamed for Britains horrific storms and severe weather.

  5. Each year 27,000 species become extinct in tropical rain forests alone.

  6. When sea otters were over-hunted off the Californian coast, the food chain disruption turned the area into a marine desert.

  7. Only 500 of the 620 primate species will still exist in the wild in ten to twenty years time.

  8. There are 10,000 protected areas around the world but they only cover about six per cent of the land's surface.

  9. In the last 30 years, humans have used up one third of the planet's natural resources.

  10. Global warming could destroy 70 per cent of our coldest places, killing many species.

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