OK.
This needs to be said, not that it hasn't been already, by more and
more reputable scientists and ordinary informed citizens. But truly, it
needs to be said, over and over, by everyone who realizes the truth of
it.
I
have robust confidence that this is true, and that the survivors of
this century (if there are any) will consider this a glaringly obvious
historical truth of which they can't understand why the leaders of our
time could have been so very deep in denial.
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The threat to the human habitability of our world from Global Climate
Change is the greatest threat to survival the human race has faced since
long before the invention of agriculture; and this Sixth Extinction now
appears to be likely to be on a par with some of the gravest crises to
life on this planet in its entire planetary history.
We
have spent as a nation over a trillion dollars since 9/11 on so-called
homeland security. Virtually all of that has actually been
counterproductive; making us more insecure, more paranoid, more
distracted. Meanwhile our government and the governments of almost all
the world's nations have continued to make the real crisis... the threat
to homeworld security, worse and worse. Biogeographers and
climate and energy experts ... at least some of them... think it may
already be too late to avoid catastrophe.
We
WILL experience huge shocks to our economy and civilization. These may
come on gradually, but maybe not. It's not all that unlikely that as
soon as ten years from now the world will look very different from
today, with major disruptions and political crises at a fever pitch.
The tragedy is that we, as a species, probably do have the power to survive and even mostly reverse this. But will we? The signs are not favorable.
Everyone
needs to become alarmed and start demanding the kinds of changes that
will make a habitable world for future generations possible. It probably
is not too late. But if we don't force major paradigm shifts in the
behavior of our species; and make the equivalent of World War II effort
to change to renewable energy and sustainable resource use; catastrophe
will be unavoidable.
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