The Dire Consequences of Global Warming
Scientists are now saying that we are on the path to six degrees Celsius of global warming. This is catastrophic.
Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilization.
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"It would cause a mass extinction of almost all life and probably reduce humanity to a few struggling groups of embattled survivors clinging to life near the poles."
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"As the ice-caps melt, hundreds of millions will also be forced to move inland due to rapidly-rising seas. As world food supplies crash, the higher mid-latitude and sub-polar regions would become fiercely-contested refuges.
This is what we are bequeathing to our descendants, and it may be too late to do anything about it. Let us hope they are wrong, but then clearly if anything can be done about it, it has to be done right now.
Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilization.
.
.
.
"It would cause a mass extinction of almost all life and probably reduce humanity to a few struggling groups of embattled survivors clinging to life near the poles."
.
.
.
"As the ice-caps melt, hundreds of millions will also be forced to move inland due to rapidly-rising seas. As world food supplies crash, the higher mid-latitude and sub-polar regions would become fiercely-contested refuges.
This is what we are bequeathing to our descendants, and it may be too late to do anything about it. Let us hope they are wrong, but then clearly if anything can be done about it, it has to be done right now.
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