What you need to know: Currently, the ice sheet in Greenland is losing nearly 1 billion tons of ice every single day. Why? Generally speaking, because of global warming. However, humans are the cause of global warming. Annually, the average citizen of the United States emits enough carbon to melt 10,000 tons of ice in the Antarctic ice sheets. This is enough to add 10,000 cubic meters of water to the ocean. Even more disturbing, individually we all add five gallons of carbon every minute that ticks on the clock, warming the planet even more. Food for thought: Greenland’s ice sheet contains enough ice to raise global sea levels ten to twenty feet. 

Quinn Breen and Lea Hamel

“The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” by David Wallace-Wells (2019)

Fact taken from chapter titled “Drowning,” p. 59-69

Quinn Breen and Lea Hamel