Today, the threats of climate change are more severe than ever. Empirical evidence shows that despite all our global resolutions, humanity hasn’t yet made the commitments necessary to reverse the effects of society’s relentless onslaught on nature. 

How Acute is the Threat of Climate Change?

Since the late 19th century, the Earth’s average surface temperature has risen by 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit of which most of the warming happened in the past 40 years. The years 2016 and 2020 were the Planet’s warmest years on record. The oceans that store 90% of the Earth’s excess energy have absorbed much of the increased heat. Resultantly, the warming of the top 100 meters of the ocean increased by more than 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit than what was measured in 1969. Greenland alone has lost an average of 279 billion tons of ice annually between 1993 and 2019. In Antarctica, the loss has been 148 billion tons per year. As a result of climate change, the global sea-level has risen about 8-inches or 20-centimeters in the last century. 

Despite such severe warnings, we have not yet been able to bring down our carbon emissions to a moderate and manageable level. Global emissions of Carbon Dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil fuels as well as deforestation, agriculture, and other activities have increased from a volume of 1.957 billion tons of CO2 in 1900 to 36.831 billion tons of CO2 in 2018. 

How to Reverse the Impact of Carbon Emissions?

Experts have worked out several ways to reverse the impact of Carbon emissions. However, the easiest is the one that we always knew about, but did not care enough to practice. It’s planting trees. According to the results obtained from robust scientific studies, Earth’s ecosystems are capable of supporting another 900 million hectares or 2.2 billion acres of forests. It’s 25 percent more forested area than what we have on the planet at present. By planting more than half a trillion trees, scientists estimate, we could capture 205 billion metric tons of carbon and reduce atmospheric carbon by about one-fourth. That is equal to 20 years of human-produced carbon emissions at the current rate. 

Encouraging Tree-Planting With Blockchain

Greeneum Network was set up as a decentralized platform aimed at supporting the stakeholders who work together to build a sustainable, eco-technological future. The network leverages high-end disruptive technologies to create a credible, extensive, and certified energy data platform for all stakeholders of the renewable energy market to access. Greeneum Network, is a decentralized marketplace to incentivize Green energy producers and all those proponents of an eco-friendly future who have been taking corrective measures to reverse the course of climate change. 

If you would like to join our efforts in stopping climate change by planting trees around click on the link below and plant trees with Click A Tree our partner for tree planting and send us the confirmation.

Once you have planted the trees through Click A Tree and more initiatives are welcome to join us, E-mail us the for confirmation to info@greeneum.net and get a present from our marketplace promotions.

It is also important to note that Wallets such as Ledger or Trezor are considered to be more secure but for daily and limited transactions you could use Metamask for Chrome browsers or Trust-wallet wallets for both IOS or Android mobile phones.