Posted on 10/26/2023 9:30:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Humanity is on course to transgress multiple global “tipping points” that could lead to irreversible instability or the complete collapse of ecological and institutional systems, a United Nations report warned Wednesday.
The third annual Interconnected Disaster Risks report from the U.N. University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security found that drastic changes will occur if urgent actions are not taken around six moments when sociological systems are no longer able to buffer risks.
The tipping points include several issues that California is confronting head-on — groundwater depletion, rising insurance costs, extreme heat and species extinction. The other threats are melting glaciers and space debris. According to U.N. officials, “when one system tips, other systems may also be pushed over the edge.”
“The very practical consequence will be that much more people will live under very precarious conditions — so loss of life, loss of livelihood and loss of opportunities,” said Zita Sebesvari, deputy director at the U.N. University Institute.
The tipping points are growing increasingly interconnected through global supply chains, trade and communications networks, the report says.
“We are moving perilously close to the brink of multiple risk tipping points,” the report says. The good news is that it is not too late to make changes to avoid or at least delay the worst possible outcomes.
“We and our behaviors are slowly removing pieces one by one from the base, until at some point the system can no longer cope with the growing instability and it collapses,” O’Connor told reporters Wednesday.
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On the plus side, maybe some space debris will land on that obnoxious devilish looking guy who attracts every disaster under the sun just like Pigpen did in Peanuts.
The UN has as much credibility dispensing advice about “climate change” as medical “experts” do dispensing advice about how masks and “vaccines” protect against the Fauci Flu; that is, both have NO credibility.
“We must act now before it is too late again.”
LOL. Yes, we will never again have this opportunity to stop all the tipping points.
More tyrannical communism will fix that.
HAhahahaha! Space debris!
The only danger Californians face from “space debris”... is the fallout from SFB Newsom and his “spacey” leftist policies.
Most of California’s problems are self-induced by the leftist morons they elect to govern them.
As for the rising costs of insurance, under idiots like Newsom, I foresee a time where most of the California residents will be living in easily and cheaply insured tents (you vil own nothing and you vil be happy). So that problem will eventually solve itself, if the so-called government in CA is not fundamentally transformed away from sheer stupidity.
The un apparently doesnt realize its all over anyways, just about 7 years left.
It’s always 7 years left. Just like nuclear fusion power is always 20 years away.
A colleague once called these bow waves — you can never catch it.
No Sale!
Bump
The UN wastes way too much money on Fakery and Scams
Psst, a few nukes might hit the tipping point. Maybe, just maybe, stopping WWIII might be the direction the ever so helpful UN should be focused.
OMG! We’ll all die!
The UN has NO credibility.
I’m worried about being killed by an epidemic of stupidity.
“epidemic of stupidity.”
Isn’t that the truth? It’s the most existential threat we face.
Who made this list? Space debris is a large-scale risk?
I’m an OPTIMIST, none of it will fall on my house—JUST YOURS!
(snicker-snicker)
Why single out California? I think Seattle residents should be worried, they might get a 9.5 earthquake. Then there's the New Madrid zone in Missouri and Mississippi, will get bigger quakes than California. Alaska gets bigger quakes. These other states are overdue for big ones, more so than California.
Space is vast, and most of the Earth is covered by water and empty land. Even if satellite collisions occur, any debris falling that is not burned up will likely land in open ocean. Billions of people, only a few have been struck by meteorites (and they survived).
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