Apologies for the delay: The population is growing exponetially...

Apologies for the delay:

The population is growing exponetially and unless dramatic action is taken within the next few decades I'm afraid the world will be in a much much worse state than what it is now.

https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world-population-prospects-2017.html
The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new United Nations report being launched today. With roughly 83 million people being added to the world’s population every year, the upward trend in population size is expected to continue, even assuming that fertility levels will continue to decline.

http://www.iflscience.com/environme...n-climate-refugees-by-the-end-of-the-century/
The world – all with the exception of the US federal government, that is – has woken up to the threat of climate change. It is no longer an abstract scientific concept; it is the visceral experience of homes being burned down in wildfires, coastal communities being swamped, and major metropolitan centers being submerged by storm surges.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...meone-has-to-get-rich-fighting-climate-change

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...content=1439402&utm_campaign=cs_daily&modapt=

https://skepticalscience.com/coumou-robinson-2013-extreme-heat-frequency.html
Posted on 21 August 2013

Dim Coumou and Alexander Robinson from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have published a paper in Environmental Research Letters (open access, free to download) examining the frequency of extreme heat events in a warming world.
They compared a future in which humans continue to rely heavily on fossil fuels (IPCC scenario RCP8.5) to one in which we transition away from fossil fuels and rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (RCP2.6). In both cases, the global land area experiencing extreme summer heat will quadruple by 2040 due to the global warming that's already locked in from the greenhouse gases we've emitted thus far.

Is there a relationship between heatwaves and climate change?

http://scorcher.org.au/faq

Heatwaves have always occurred in Australia. However, since they are an extreme event their occurrence, by definition, is rare. As the background climate warms due to human activity, this increases the frequency and intensity of hot temperature events, like heatwaves. You can find more information about the relationship between average and extreme temperatures here .
Research conducted at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science has detected an increase in the frequency of Australian heatwaves since 1950. Research is currently underway to deterimine how heatwaves may change in the future over Australia, as atmospheric greenhouse gases continue to rise due to human activity.

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/11/13/trumps-climate-official-i-actually-dont-know-2c-means/

http://www.bigscrubrainforest.org/
The Big Scrub, our local rainforest, covered 75,000ha prior to European settlement. It was the largest expanse of lowland subtropical rainforest in Australia. It is directly descended from the great Gondwana rainforest that covered Australia 40 million years ago. It is unique. It is internationally significant. It is a very important part of Australia’s rich biodiversity heritage. Tragically European settlers cleared almost 99% of this magnificent rainforest and by 1900 all that remained was less than 1% as scattered remnants across the landscape.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/five-yea...ake-highlights-conflict-economy-nature-98245/
Australia’s population growth and economic activity continue to pose major environmental challenges, according to a comprehensive five-yearly stocktake of the country’s environmental health.
The federal government’s State of the Environment 2016 report (prepared by a group of independent experts, which I chaired), released today, .predicts that population growth and economic development will be the main drivers of environmental problems such as land-use change, habitat destruction, invasive species, and climate change

Coastal waterways are threatened by pollutants, including microplastics and nanoparticles, which are largely unregulated and their effects poorly understood.

Australia’s biodiversity is continuing to decline, with some exceptions, and new approaches are needed to prevent accelerating decline in many species. Since 2011, the list of nationally threatened species and ecological communities has lengthened, with the addition of 30 new ecological communities, and 44 animal and 5 plant species. Two species have been reported as probably extinct: the Bramble Cay melomys and the Christmas Island forest skink.

https://www.fame.org.au/news-and-me...ot-know-about-threatened-species-in-australia
# 1

The last Tasmania Tiger died in the Hobart Zoo on September 7th 1936 this date is now commemorated by National Threatened Species Day.
# 2

54 Australian mammals, birds, frogs and other animals have become extinct since European settlement.
# 3

35% of all modern global mammal extinction have been Australian mammal species (30 out of 84 worldwide extinctions)
# 4

The first recorded extinction as a direct result of human caused climate change is the Australian Bramble Cay Melomys.
# 5

The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act currently lists 54 Australian animal species as critically endangered. All species on this list are at a very high risk of becoming extinct in the near future, sadly some species on the list in all likelihood are already extinct.

https://www.ehp.qld.gov.au/sustainability/
The average Australian household releases around 13 000 kg of CO₂ each year. By contrast, the average Swedish household’s contribution is only 6800 kg.

https://www.ehp.qld.gov.au/wildlife/threats/
The global movement of goods and people are directly contributing to the introduction of plants and animals to areas where they do not naturally occur. These species taken to new environments may fail to survive but some thrive, and become invasive. This process, together with habitat destruction, has been a major cause of extinction of Australian native species in the past few hundred years. Invasive species causing harm to the environment, biodiversity, human health or productivity are declared under Queensland legislation and are subject to a range of control actions, from preventing spread to eradication.
Invasive species include:

• animals
• plants
• introduced marine pests
• diseases, fungi and parasites

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-10/unprecedented-10000-hectares-of-mangroves-die/7552968
International mangroves expert Dr Norm Duke said he had no doubt the "dieback" was related to climate change.
"It's a world-first in terms of the scale of mangrove that have died," he told the ABC.

http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-2/fisheries/state-of-fisheries-worldwide/

Within a few short decades, industrial fishing has expanded from the traditional fishing grounds of the Northern Hemisphere to include all the world’s oceans and seas. Many stocks have been overexploited and are depleted. But the situation is not without hope. Some countries have shown that fish stocks can in fact recover when sustainable fisheries management systems are implemented.

https://www.ecowatch.com/one-third-...ished-at-unsustainable-levels-1910593830.html

If we keep pulling fish out of our waterways at this rate, we're going to run out of fish. The Guardian has revealed that due to vast overfishing, nearly 90 percent of global fish stocks are either fully fished or overfished, based on a new analysis from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

For instance, in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, 59 percent of assessed stocks are fished at biologically unsustainable levels, a situation that the report's authors described as "alarming." Not only that, the possible expansion of invasive fish species associated to climate change is a concern in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Oceana, an international ocean conservation and advocacy organization, "regrets" the new FAO study. The group pointed out from the report that overfished and fully-fished stocks are at 89.5 percent in 2016 compared to around 62-68 percent in 2000.
"We now have a fifth more of global fish stocks at worrying levels than we did in 2000.
The global environmental impact of overfishing is incalculable and the knock-on impact for coastal economies is simply too great for this to be swept under the rug any more," Lasse Gustavsson, executive director of Oceana in Europe, said.

But:

"There is an absolute limit to what we can extract from the sea and it is possibly very close to current production levels, which have stabilized over last few years," Manuel Barange, the UN FAO's fisheries director, told the publication. "They have grown a little in recent years but we don't expect much more growth because of the rampant increase in aquaculture production."

"My personal view is that it is quite momentous to have reached this level of production," Barange added. "In the struggle to make sure we have enough food to feed more than 9 billion people in 2050, any source of nutrients and micronutrients is welcome."

I can continue..............all day