How Humans are Destroying the Planet

First: Climate Change. Then: Human Behaviour

Global Warming and Climate Change

This Model effectively describes the phenomenon of Climate Change and its impacts on the environment, flora and fauna – and particularly effects on Humans.

It starts with:

• Fossil fuel consumption
• The effects of intensive agriculture and
• Deforestation

Then: Creation of Greenhouse Gases

• Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Water Vapour,

Giving rise to Global Warming and Climate Change.
This in turn Leads to Highly Negative Environmental effects:

• Destruction of habitats
• Collapse of ecosystems,
• species extinction and loss of biodiversity and
• Reduced sunlight reflection,
• Melting permafrost

And an intensification of extreme weather events

• Heat,
• hurricanes,
• floods,
• droughts and
• wildfires

Causing Glacial and ice sheet melting, Freshwater loss and desertification, Coral bleaching, sea level rises and coastal submersion - and serious declines in fish stocks

Then, an increase in pest propagation, and disease carriers.

All of this has in turn disastrous Effects on Humans

• Direct impacts on Health
• Flooding of cities and farmland
• Crop failure and loss of farmland
• Starvation, migration and conflict
• Direct physical harm caused by extreme weather events