this author, caitlin, may becoming a new favorite along with pcr and kunstler not to forget fred.
in this piece she speaks of where the planet is heading because of our activities, on many levels;
A new IPCC report written and edited by 91 scientists from 40 countries who analyzed more than 6,000 scientific studies says we’re looking at climate catastrophe as
early as 2040 unless changes are made worldwide on a scale and speed
which has no historic precedent. $54 trillion worth of damage is
predicted to result from the 1.5 degree Celsius rise in global average
temperatures we’re expected to be facing at that time if drastic changes
are not made.
To be clear, when climate scientists talk about a
1.5 degree hike in global average temperatures, they are not saying that
days will tend to be around 1.5 degrees warmer, which doesn’t sound bad
at all. What they are saying is that there will be drastic heat spikes
which elevate the overall average by 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees
Fahrenheit) around the globe. This means moving into a world which sees
sea levels rising and destroying coastal and island civilizations, it
means mass famine due to destruction of crops from heat spikes in summer
months, freezes in the winter and other extreme weather events, it
means potential worldwide violence and predation as livable regions and
resources become scarce on a rapidly changing planet.
This is
coming off the back of the Trump administration’s seamless shift from
claiming climate change is a Chinese hoax to saying it’s very real and
very bad but there’s nothing that can be done about it. In a Draft Environmental Impact Statement,
Trump’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that a
temporary freeze in fuel efficiency requirements for cars won’t be that
big of a deal in terms of environmental impact because we’re headed
toward a four degree Celsius increase in global average temperatures by
the end of the century and avoiding that “would require substantial
increases in technology innovation and adoption compared to today’s
levels and would require the economy and the vehicle fleet to move away
from the use of fossil fuels, which is not currently technologically
feasible or economically feasible.”
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/10/09/some-thoughts-on-climate-change/
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