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New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat, Extinction: Freshwater fish in 'catastrophic' decline, Ocean Fish Numbers Cut in Half Since 1970, David Attenborough: 'We face the collapse of everything', and how much emissions do the richest emmit. 

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New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat - source

"If you don't have the finances you need to recover, then families have to make really difficult trade-offs, like maybe forgo spending on medical expenses because otherwise you don't have a safe home," says Carolyn Kousky, the executive director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Extinction: Freshwater fish in 'catastrophic' decline - source

“Conservation groups said 80 species were known to have gone extinct, 16 in the last year alone. Millions of people rely on freshwater fish for food and as a source of income through angling and the pet trade. But numbers have plummeted due to pressures including pollution, unsustainable fishing, and the damming and draining of rivers and wetlands. The report said populations of migratory fish have fallen by three-quarters in the last 50 years. Over the same time period, populations of larger species, known as "megafish", have crashed by 94%.”

Ocean Fish Numbers Cut in Half Since 1970- source

"There is a massive, massive decrease in species which are critical", both for the ocean ecosystem and food security for billions of people, he said. "The ocean is resilient but there is a limit." The report said populations of fish, marine mammals, birds and reptiles had fallen 49 percent between 1970 and 2012. For fish alone, the decline was 50 percent.

David Attenborough: 'We face the collapse of everything'- source

Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN. Attenborough gives stark warning on climate change to UN. Climate change could, within a lifetime, destroy "entire cities and societies", Sir David Attenborough has told the UN Security Council. "I don't envy the responsibility that this places on all of you," the naturalist said.

How much emissions do the richest emmit - source

The richest 10 percent (approx. 630 million people) accounted for over half (52 percent) of the carbon dioxide emissions. The richest one percent accounted for 15 percent of emissions -- more than twice that of the poorest half of humanity (7 percent).

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