Our World, Our Home,
Faces Many Challenges
- Potent storms are becoming more frequent, more severe, and affecting more people than in past decades.
- Examples include:
- Hurricanes Florence (Caribbean, Eastern US, 2018) and Michael (Florida, 2018)
- Hurricanes Irma and Maria (Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, 2017)
- Hurricane Katrina (New Orleans, 2005)
- Examples include:
- Infrastructures are becoming increasingly stressed by age, population growth, and natural disasters, making recovery more difficult.
- Rising sea levels will further increase the impacts of storms on island and coastal regions.
- Plastics pollution is a mounting problem for communities, our oceans, and ultimately our food supplies. Awareness of this problem is increasing, but measures to reverse plastic pollution and begin healing our oceans are not yet keeping up.