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"Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven from their homes by climate
disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach. As the
extreme right gains power, climate programmes are shut down, heating
accelerates and more people are driven from their homes. If we don’t break this
cycle soon, it will become the dominant story of our times.
A recent paper in the scientific journal
Nature identifies the “human climate
niche”: the range of temperatures and rainfall within which human societies
thrive. We have clustered in the parts of the world with a climate that
supports our flourishing, but in many of these places the niche is shrinking.
Already, around 600 million people have been stranded in inhospitable
conditions by global heating. Current global policies are likely to result in
about 2.7C of heating by 2100. On this trajectory, some 2 billion people may be
left outside the niche by 2030, and 3.7 billion by 2090. If governments limited
heating to their agreed goal of 1.5C, the numbers exposed to extreme heat would
be reduced fivefold. But if they abandon their climate policies, this would
lead to around 4.4C of heating. In this case, by the end of the century around
5.3 billion people would face conditions that ranged from dangerous to
impossible.
These conditions include extreme disruption, morbidity and death through
heat-shock, water stress, crop failure and the spread of infectious disease.
The figures do not take into account the effect of rising sea levels, which
could displace hundreds of millions more."
Via Fabian Anarchist and Tess.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
