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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
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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All true unfortunately, but how to get rid of our system of government that adds to the troubles and just wait until things are too late, as long as there’s no mud and sewerage running through their homes they won’t care and can always blame the opposition which is the point of our system of democracy: to be able to say we tried but the opposition are to blame. Unless australians are willing to see the problems and try to hold the politicians legally to their promises but of course most methods of achieving that have been put into law. Notice the recent trend towards making protests illegal and even criminal and the lack of appropriate Legislative Change cycle during covid to get anything put into legislation without public consultation or review processes. To find out for yourself try reading the definitions of words in the legislation and compare that to the public understanding of the words or phrases, its how the system works and why we’re seeing increasing numbers of “support” systems driving taxpayers into poverty and homelessness. I bet what everyone one of you thinks of as “renewables” is different from the definition in legislation. I bet theres room for the government to classify Coal and natural gas as renewable because there is no timeframe in the definitions and so in 50M years the coal will renew. I’ve seen that sort of crap used. Even if we go fully american with the one bullet one vote policy the legislation remains in place for the next people to abuse.
I’m not sure about the timeframe for destruction but it might be within our lifetimes not our grandchildrens. As the balance tipping keeps swinging it’ll accelerate and we’ll see more harm and death as a result but the extremes will be shortlived, but long enough for death of anyone unprepared but in our grandchildrens time the extreme predictions will be the average. Bring it on I’m ready to go now, No matter if you put your super mansion on a mountain top of underground, you wont have livestock to live off for long or crops either and it’ll happen faster than evolution can adapt but thats fine, if humans get wiped out the world and life will go on and ,yes, find a way.