....And I feel fine....

When one reads that civilization itself is threatened by human-caused climate change, it's no surprise. The only surprise is the impatience I feel reading that. Let's call it a day. Humans, unfortunately, are not improving our baser natures.

Civilization- thousands of years of creating, building, storytelling, writing, reading, studying- and what have we got to? A point where the children of the wealthiest nations are simultaneously spoiled and deprived, while the children of the poorest nations are literally left to rot. A world where people still kill each other over primitive fairy tales.

A few days ago, I read a fucking condescending article about a group of pacific islanders who 'worship' Prince Philip as a god. This article couldn't have been written with a shittier tone, a real, 'hey, how about these ignorant native peoples?' way about it. Well, I say, cheers to the native islanders. At least Prince Philip, as loathsome as he may be, can presumably be proved to exist.

Well, anyway, just a little more consensus-building, more of the best research finding the same results, more of the same and the same and the same. I haven't been updating as much as I want to, but make no mistake: DOOMED.

"Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming.
They also implicitly criticise the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for underestimating the scale of sea-level rises this century as a result of melting glaciers and polar ice sheets.
Instead of sea levels rising by about 40 centimetres, as the IPCC predicts in one of its computer forecasts, the true rise might be as great as several metres by 2100. That is why, they say, planet Earth today is in "imminent peril".
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Dramatic flips in the climate have occurred in the past but none has happened since the development of complex human societies and civilisation, which are unlikely to survive the same sort of environmental changes if they occurred now.
"Civilisation developed, and constructed extensive infrastructure, during a period of unusual climate stability, the Holocene, now almost 12,000 years in duration. That period is about to end," the scientists warn. Humanity cannot afford to burn the Earth's remaining underground reserves of fossil fuel. "To do so would guarantee dramatic climate change, yielding a different planet from the one on which civilisation developed and for which extensive physical infrastructure has been built," they say."
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