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CLIMATE CHANGE :
- a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.
The impacts of climate change include warming temperatures, changes in precipitation (weather, rain patterns etc.), increases in the frequency or intensity of some extreme weather events (such as earthquakes, forest fires, hurricanes etc.) and rising sea levels. These impacts threaten our health by affecting the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the weather we experience.
Also, with the rising levels of plastic pollution we are also endangering ourselves as well as the animals that are killed because of the plastic. This is because the quantity of plastic increases the further down the food chain you go towards the apex predator.
- To explain this, think about the ratio to which each organism consumes another. One fish will swallow 3 pieces of plastic and a shoal of fish contains around 10 fish. A sea bird then consumes 5 of these fish, so the bird now has 15 pieces of plastic inside them. A human then eats 2 of these birds so the human - the apex predator - now contains 30 pieces of micro-plastic. So the food chain becomes more and more contaminated the further up the food chain you go - which can eventually affect the overall biodiversity of an ecosystem.