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 ...
David Wallace-Wells’ is probably in his early 50’s and thinks he’ll be dead before he’s proven wrong. These ‘chicken little’ folks are getting smarter on their crystal ball gazing...
It won’t be that bad, we survived the All the Oceans dying and Acid Rain melting us already.
The climate alarmist solution: Cut GDP by 50% now, and beat the rush.
When you start with false assumptions, it is hard to arrive at real solutions.
Would shredding and composting all the worthless “unscientific” science these pinheads produce help delay the date of earth’s demise ? These politically-compromised, integrity-free degenerates themselves should be shredded and composted ? What pathetic joke-science snake oil salesmen.
Mr. Goalpost is getting mighty tired.
We seem to be improving all the time. Congratulations to humanity!
Thanks to Hot Hunt and others for the above realities versus the end of humans due to Gorebull Warming BS Predictions.
Well considering the FACT that Occasional Cortex said it on national television, in answer to a serious question I guess that tells me that she has the intelligence of a SEA SPONGE.
I'll take my chances with supply and demand, thank you. Government has a horrible expensive track record and never solves anything. As a matter of fact their existence hinges on never accomplishing anything and claiming they need more money and more power to make progress. Forever.
Wonder what the carbon footprint is of this doomsayer is?
Last week I went to the doctor, he told me I had only six months.. I told him I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me another six months... bud-a-boom..!
Actually, their message is: “Give us lots of money, live with less, and let us run your lives — or you will all die!”
People don’t know it yet, but NYC is under water now. That’s what the eco-fascists said would happen by 2010.
Swim for your lives, new yorkers. Swim!
Maybe I can get rich quick if I write a book that says we have forty years left. Forty is a good, round number. The rain fell in Noah’s flood for forty days and nights, so forty has got historic precedent for catastrophes.
The Arctic was supposed to be ice free in the year 2000.
Anyone remember “CRISWELL PREDICTS!”
http://www.criswellpredicts.com/criswell-predicted.htm
The Great Drought And Flood (p. 41)
I predict that in the year 1977 the face of the earth will be completely changed. Rain will not fall for a period of ten months. I predict that our great lakes will become beds of sand and rivers will slow down to a trickle. ... The results of this drought will be catastrophic. I predict starvation, disease, insanity and death on an unprecedented scale. Hospitals will be overburdened and the death rate will be so high that the dead will remain unburied for weeks at a time. This will be known as the era of the black death, the twentieth-century black death. I predict that New York City will become a ghost town with industry at a standstill, for power will go dead, subways will be emptied and out of service, and the entire transportation system of this once steaming metropolis will be totally crippled. The populace will leave by the thousands in their search for water. The nation’s highways will be filled with helpless, struggling people.
In the great Midwest, I predict that the dust bowl of Kansas will be the death trap for countless humans and animals. Farms, fields and homesteads will be covered by mountains of sand and dust and no form of life can exist.
I keep trying to tell everyone but no one listens!
We all died on Y2K!
We’re just ghosts now.
“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.”
So essentially eliminate modern life...
Liberals have been crying wolf nearly my whole life.
U.N. predicts disaster if global warming not checked - June 29 1989, Peter Spielman
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
When banks stop giving out 30 year loans on million dollar beach homes, then I’ll pay a modicum of attention.
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