Global Climate Crisis Takes Over The World In Two Years
The ability of humanity to halt the rapid and dangerous changes is gone in as little as two years. In two years, the catastrophic effects of a warm world could become permanent and then worsen.
According to The Guardian, “The latest assessment by leading climate scientists found that in order to achieve a 66% chance of keeping below the 1.5C target, emissions from 2025 onwards must be limited to 80bn tonnes of CO2. That is 80% lower than it was in 2020.”
The scientist who did the study made two observations. The first is that to curb the worst of climate change, the process would have had to start in earnest in the mid-1990s. The second and related one is that it is too late to solve the problem.
Who Pays For It
Soon, the world will need to look for capital to pay for the byproducts of climate change. That means budgets for everything from fighting fires to rebuilding areas that a hurricane has crushed. It will involve the underwriting of climate migration. It means a more widespread distribution of genetically modified seeds. Water may need to be desalinated, an extremely expensive process.
Emergency rooms will need to be equipped and prepared to handle climate-related illnesses. Beaches will need new protection. Construction will need to be altered, at great expense, to withstand wind, fire, flood, and hurricanes.
The billions put into trying to slow global warming will need to be put into building higher walls, stronger housing, more cooling systems, and underwriting the costs of people and locations that cannot afford this building of a world in which climate change has turned into a climate catastrophe.
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