Well hello there, I hope you enjoyed finding one of our cards. Below you will find facts and references explaining our lyrics. If all this information makes you feel very sad and scared about the future, join the eXtinction Rebellion! Go along to your local meeting, because you are not alone. Together we can force change, because there is hope. There are solutions to all these problems, its just going to take everyday people saying enough is enough. Merry Christmas!

On the Last Day of Christmas The System gave to me………

A CLIMATE EMERGENCY!

We demand that the government declare a climate emergency

Two ice caps a melting

The Arctic is predicted to be free of ice by 2040

Thirty years til starving

The UK is now only 30-40 years away from total loss of soil fertility

Four degrees C warmer

We are on course for 4°C of warming by 2100…1.5°C is the maximum acceptable limit

LOTS OF PLASTIC THINGS!

8 000 000 pieces of plastic pollution find their way into the ocean every year

Six in ten are dying

Since 1970, 60% of animal populations have been destroyed

Seven lands a-warring

Climate change is a known driver for armed conflict

Eight million hectares felling

7.3 million hectares of forest are lost each year, and the rate of loss is increasing

Nine feet sea rising

Global sea levels could rise by 3 meters this century in worst case scenarios

Number 10 ignoring

The 2018 budget did not mention climate change, and gave subsidies to fossil fuel infrastructure

Eleven wells a-fracking

There are currently 11 active or planned fracking sites in the UK

Twelve years and counting

The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there are only a dozen years for global warming to be kept within 1.5°C, beyond which the risk of long-lasting and irreversible global changes is high.