Posted on 05/13/2019 1:21:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
"It is worse, much worse, than you think."
That's how David Wallace-Wells' new book "The Uninhabitable Earth" opens. It's a painstakingly researched look at the catastrophic consequences global warming is already having on the planet - and the even worse ones that are coming unless drastic action is taken over the next three decades.
"Projections estimate that if we don't change course on global warming, we could have a global GDP that's 30 percent smaller than it would be without climate change. That's an impact that's twice as big as the Great Depression, and it would be permanent."
What can humans do to mitigate that kind of damage? Wallace-Wells says the short answer is "political change producing policy change."
"We need such dramatic interventions in every sector of our world, from our energy, to our transportation, to our infrastructure, our agriculture," he says. "Absolutely every aspect of modern life has a carbon footprint, and we need to not just reduce those carbon footprints, we need to eliminate them entirely."
(Excerpt) Read more at wbur.org ...
“Social intelligence”? Only AOC could think that was a real thing. What a dumba**.
He’s joking. It’s dry humor and sarcasm.
AOC was only joking, don'cha know...
They have said this crap forever.
We ought to make all forms of scaremongering junk/pseudo bad sci-fi sciejce illegal. Especially when they demand political or economic penalites that will impact everyday life.
The commies all hid under the ecofreak movements. Its all still about controlling individuals. The more controlcthey have the less real freedom you have.
doc says she was joking so I’m going with 30
That means the author looked at more than one poorly written computer model. /s
aoc
Doomies are always wrong.
I thought it was 12 years. 30 years is on the far side of my life span.
Let’s spark up some dirty coal!
And then the idiots will realize this has nothing to do with people.
By then we will be living underground.
Realization that 12 years just is simply to early for our date with doom. 30 years is a more sensible number we can all get behind, right?
30 percent smaller than it would be without climate change.
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Eliminating climate change is not possible.
The climate has been changing since the dawn of time and will continue to change regardless of anything humans do.
This is all BS to facilitate theft.
But THEY fact check every burp that comes out of Trumps mouth.
Speaking of the”intelligence of a sea sponge” ....
The San Jose Mercury News reported on June 30, 1989 that a “senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.”
Considering we were just Entering the Ice Age in 1976, I don’ think I will worry much.
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin’ thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
‘Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river
I split it down the middle and say 15. Sound about right?
Back in the 1970s, we also had 25 years or 30 years. The secular doomsday predictions are as accurate as the ones coming from religious sects and cults.
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