From peat fires around Moscow to huge floods in Pakistan, super hurricanes, super storms, super winter snowfalls and floods or, alternately, extended drought (even both in Australia) are becoming the norm.
Seas are rising and ice is melting faster than scientists imagined possible even as recently as 2007.
Tropical forests continue to fall.
Glacier melt is accelerating around the world with dire implications for agriculture from India to China, California to Peru.
Rivers are drying up.
Soil depletion continues unabated.
Water tables are falling relentlessly around the world.
Drought has become a permanent feature of the American Southwest, of Australia, of regions of Africa and the Middle East, and northern China.
Ocean fisheries are collapsing right and left.
Coral reefs, scientists now think, could die off in many places by mid-century and over the entire planet by 2100.
Penguin colonies are at risk.
The collective impact of nearly 7 billion people pumping their emissions into the atmosphere and dumping their excreta and toxics into drains and rivers that eventually issue into the seas is changing the chemical composition of the world's vast oceans, threatening the future of living creatures in the oceans and those who live off the oceans.
We're destroying life and wiping out species so fast that, in Bill McKibben's words, "We're running Genesis backward, decreating..!"
