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The “10 year challenge” has been sweeping social media with people posting pics of themselves in 2009 versus 2019. The results have been everything from adorable to hysterical, but a new set of pictures are popping up to show a more somber side to what can happen in a decade — the terrifyingly rapid changes in our environment,

Environmental activists and scientists are using the challenge to highlight a very real concern — the dramatic changes to our planet. The World Economic Forum puts out a yearly list of the biggest threats to our planet and for the past three years running, “extreme weather” caused by climate change has been listed at the top of the list. “Our survey respondents are increasingly worried about environmental policy failure,” the report said.