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.
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Focus on the present.
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Suffering and misery are here today & pollution is worsening current atmospheric conditions.
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So why not reverse course, starting right now?
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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.
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The above items were easy to "predict" because they've already happened.
Governments can collapse following crop failures. Famines are spreading.
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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.”
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"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.”
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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’.”
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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.” ​
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Join the Boycott. Please.
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