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The same fear and urgency is echoed in the words of many others: Climate change is knocking on the door, and many disasters will come if we don't change the climate reality... Why do I care about climate change? Because it will cause loads of problems for the planet and people living here. ( S Ã O P A U L O , I N T E R V I E W ) If we don't leave the old way of mind and wake up out of our ignorance and see the really big danger reaching for us... the human race won't survive. ( L I M A , B L O G 1 A ) This fear was compounded with a sense that action must be taken swiftly. I don't know if you know about the Paris Agreement, but in that agreement, all the countries that signed agreed we had until 2050 to change the climate change reality, otherwise its game over, we can't change any more. I feel fear because we're in 2018, we have less than 32 years until 2050. ( S Ã O P A U L O , I N T E R V I E W ) Though many unfamiliar with the consequences of climate change may find these team members' exclamations to be extreme, an accumulation of evidence suggests otherwise, indicating that we are on the cusp of the sixth mass extinction event in earth's history, and the first caused by humans (Kolbert 2014). Though combined with other human pressures, extinctions are largely caused by climate change; this diversity loss is also devastating for planetary climatic stability, 38 | F I N D I N G S The Drowning Tierra The Drowning Tierra shows the effects of climate change as shown by the miniature model I have made. The most obvious effect is the flooding of everything caused by excess waste and other things floating around. The flooding is also caused by the emissions of CO2 which is used to make the waste that created the flood. "The Drowning Tierra" by Fahri Santosa

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