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I have been dong a bit of research on how bad could the planet get if nothing is done to mitigate human induced CO2, methane, etc. emissions (which is the current reality) so it's business as usual until 2100....in terms of election cycles, who cares, but as I have two grandchildren, they will very likely see what our sad legacy has been.
2 billion people who live in the hottest parts of the world, will have to endure of 45 days per year of 60°C. The human body cannot be outside for longer than about six hours because it loses the ability to cool itself down at these temperatures. The same applies to flora an fauna.
Moving toward the poles will be required for the survival of any species. Equatorial regions of the planet will likely be uninhabitable except for hardy succulent plants and insects.
The oceans will have acidified by 125%. All coral reefs will be dead. Fish stocks will have collapsed. Thermal expansion of the oceans alone will account for a 1 metre sea-level rise. Major coastal cities such as Jakarta, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro and Miami will be abandoned.
All mountain glaciers will have melted. Flows of the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra and Yamuna rivers which over 600 million people rely on for water, will have all but dried up.
Then there are the storms, bushfires, massive rain events & flooding, species extinctions (which are already going great-guns), loss of arable land, loss of fresh water......
Frankly I found it too depressing to delve into the details any further.
Its all bad.
The undeniable recent events in Australia so far...
-Massive repeated bleaching on the Great Barrier reef
-186,000 square kilometres destroyed by the megafire of 2020, along thousands of homes and 3 Billion animals.
-" Hundred year" floods in Lismore for the last two years in a row
-Hottest recorded temperatures ever
-Highest recorded rainfall ever
As I write The NSW Government has just given Whitehaven the tick of approval to construct a new coal mine at Narrabri...which will result in another half billion tonnes of CO2.
I've found when you are in a deep hole, the best course of action is to stop digging.
High time we took the shovels off these lunatics.
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