By King of Hearts - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21781058
Collapse?
There’s not much good news in this weather report, but if you're worried about human extinction -
it’s not happening. Although civilization is at risk of collapse, it won't be any time soon...hopefully.
Focus on the present.
Suffering and misery are here today & pollution is worsening current atmospheric conditions.
So why not reverse course, starting right now?
The bad news is grim enough without overstating the consequences. Here’s what to expect:
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“High temperature...hazards” - meaning heat so hot airports get closed.
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The melting of “a million tonnes of ice...every minute”.
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"Wildfires in the Arctic Circle."
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A "plague of rodents"; "Swarms of locusts"; "Hundreds of scorpion stings".
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Tennis players...collapsing on live TV, "unable to breathe properly" due to polluted, smoky air.
The above items were easy to "predict" because they've already happened.
Governments can collapse following crop failures. Famines are spreading.
In 2010 - 2011, wheat harvests declined due to droughts and floods.
Subsequent shortages sparked the upheaval known as The Arab Spring.
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“Water scarcity [leads to] populations competing with farming and industry.”
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“Increasing heat, aridity, and sea-level rise will drive...poverty and hunger.”
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“When people are starving, they are more vulnerable to bacteria and viruses.”
"Remedies" may make problems worse: electricity for air conditioning can come from fossil-fuels.
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“Air-conditioning...[uses] huge amounts of electricity…when power goes out on a hot day, people die.”
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Drought-caused “low water levels...limit...[electricity from] hydroelectric power plants.”
Oil producers can read the writing on the wall. What are they thinking?
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“Industry execs...see their savior as plastics.”
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“The oil and gas and petrochemical industries...are working to dramatically expand...production.”
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“The U.A.E.’s [new] strategy: sell as much crude as possible before demand dries up.”
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“Petrostates will fall—or so says conventional wisdom”
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“The worst-hit countries could enter ‘doom loops of shrinking hydrocarbon revenues, [and] political turmoil’.”
The wondrous ability of oceans and forests to "digest" CO2 is going bad.
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“The...Amazon released...more carbon dioxide...over the last decade than it absorbed.”
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The Arctic has become a net carbon dioxide emitter for the first time.”
Join the Boycott. Please.