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New Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ Starting in 2050
The report is not saying that humanity will come to an end with the start of it happening at the year 2050. It is just explaining that models which assume that people do nothing could lead to dire consequences that do have the distinct possibility of pushing the human governments to the breaking points in many cases.
Pretty disturbing projections.
I am under the impression that most members of governments of other rich countries accept that Climate Change is a crisis but it seems that somehow they look at the U.S. for leadership.
Of course if this is the case we have a real problem because one party in the U.S. has leadership that denies Climate Change while the other party is set on pushing candidates who advocate middle of the road policies to their top leadership positions.
The U.S. in its current political state can't be the leader on tackling the issue of climate change....
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The report is not saying that humanity will come to an end with the start of it happening at the year 2050. It is just explaining that models which assume that people do nothing could lead to dire consequences that do have the distinct possibility of pushing the human governments to the breaking points in many cases.
The scenario warns that our current trajectory will likely lock in at least 3 degrees Celsius (C) of global heating, which in turn could trigger further amplifying feedbacks unleashing further warming. This would drive the accelerating collapse of key ecosystems “including coral reef systems, the Amazon rainforest and in the Arctic.”
The results would be devastating. Some one billion people would be forced to attempt to relocate from unlivable conditions, and two billion would face scarcity of water supplies. Agriculture would collapse in the sub-tropics, and food production would suffer dramatically worldwide. The internal cohesion of nation-states like the US and China would unravel.
Pretty disturbing projections.
I am under the impression that most members of governments of other rich countries accept that Climate Change is a crisis but it seems that somehow they look at the U.S. for leadership.
Of course if this is the case we have a real problem because one party in the U.S. has leadership that denies Climate Change while the other party is set on pushing candidates who advocate middle of the road policies to their top leadership positions.
The U.S. in its current political state can't be the leader on tackling the issue of climate change....
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