IS ONE-HALF THE WORLD`S POPULATION GOING TO DIE BY 2050? TRUE !
Is one-half the worlds population going to die by 2050 ? How can scientists, who I have a great deal of respect for, not take seriously the need to cut down dramatically the CARBON we personally release in the world`s atmosphere ,or the life styles we produce by the use of fuels we employ to travel, to impress each other, with homes in which 100 families can live and now are used by one,or the fact that each and every one of us is only interested in making money. I never realized this before that we are the only living creatures that pollute the earth on which we live. Yes, the only living entities that pollute our earth.I have just read "Job One, for humanity" and cannot believe what I read.And to be completely honest, I hope that these scientists are exaggerating for the purpose of self-aggrandizement. I cannot know if they say the truth because I am a pharmacy graduate and not an environmental giant. Some of the facts are completely copied from the article I read . Everything I read is totallyfrightening
Fact 1 -Over the last decades our governments have failed to fix the global emergency. The bill for this failure is now due.
Fact 2 – By 2025-2031 the the severity,frequency and scale of extreme weather increase radically far beyond what it is now. I am talking of heat waves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods, rain bombs, wind storms, dust storms, wild fire smoke events, unseasonable weather. This is due to the cumulative atmospheric greenhouse gas polution efects of over 150 years of burning fossil fuels.
Fact 3- To-day`s global fuel reduction requires all developed countries and governments (including China and India) to compel their citizens to reduce all FOSSIL FUEL USE BY ABOUT 75% BY 2025. This honest global fossil fuel reduction is so high because all governments wasted sixty years when necessary reduction could have been gradual and manageable. When you hear the media or politicians tell you we have to reduce global fossil fuel use by 40-50% by 2030, 2040, 2050 they are dead wrong. If we use those grossly underestimated reduction targets, billions more will be dead.
Fact 4- Missing the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets( and consequently crossing the atmospheric carbon threshhold of carbon 425-450 parts per million (ppm) means we also will trigger the first extinction-accelerating global warming tipping point, and will enter the second phase of runaway global heating.
Fact 5-Because our governments did not effectively reduce global fossil fuel use and heating during the last six decades, crossed climate tipping p0ints, climate feedbacks, and accelerating cimate consequences will cause the unavoidable extinction of about half of humanity by about mid-century. (This mass extinction process will be driven primarily by global crop failures, starvation, and the conflicts that will naturally arise because of accelerating primary and secondary climate change driven consequences and mass migrations.
Many nations will have to go into martial law to maintain law and order. Human rights and democracies will suffer deeply as our climate stability deteriorates.
Fact 6: With the little remaining time left to act, the only effective way to save what remains of humanity post-mid-century from the even worse near-total extinctionprocess is for our governments to get close to the 75% global fossil fuel reduction 2025 target as soon as possible.
Here are what we need to do now to save ourselves. I type with one fingure. Read the article by yourselves.
It is quite apparent to me that regardless of whether it is true that half of humanity will die by 2025, I can see without the knowledge of a climate scientist that we are changing the world. Certain environments are, in my opinion gone for ever. These lands cannot house specific animals in safety as they once did. Humans are the only species alive whose numbers constantly grow, primarily because we are afraid of the dangers of other humans to our life.A lion in Africa is not afraid of another lion 200 miles away. We fear another human in another country who looks just as we do, but talks another language we cannot understand. Do other living entities have languages ? They have sounds which have meanings. I am nearly certain the birds, insects, reptiles make sounds that communicate. We are eliminating the jungles, the forests, marine animals both in salt waters and lakes, the deserts, mountains, lakes , rivers. We do only , or nearly only, what benefts specific humans , whether other humans benefit or not. Personal selfishness is our raison d`etre. Whether the earth benefits or not,is not part of the equation. Can this go on indefinitely? Please read “JOB ONE for humanity” and get a logical answer. It is available on GOOGLE or YAHOO. Is it already too late? You decide!
Name of author
Name: Murray Rubin
Short Bio: I was born in Toronto in 1931 to a wonderful mother who divorced shortly before my birth. I owe a great deal of my success to her. I am Jewish but not at all religious, yet my culture plays an important part of my personality. I attended Harbord Collegiate and U. of T. Faculty of Pharmacy. A unique mail-order pharmacy was the first of my endeavours in the profession, followed by many stores throughout Ontario. I have a loving wife, 3 children and grand-children and I am now retired from pharmacy. But what do I write about? Everything! My topics are funny, serious, whimsical, timely, outrageous, inspiring, and inventive. I promise that if you take the time to read any one of these topics – you will not be sorry.