Together
as a collective we march on blind to the fact that the world love and know is rapidly
changing, the world of our grandparents, the world they neglected and destroyed
with rapid progress all for the sake of the market. The world of our
grandchildren, our children, and yes, even our world will not be that safe and infinite
world. The first area expected to have a complete shift in climate will be the
Philippines. Summers that we currently deem to hot will become the new normal.
Fifty years from now the coldest summers will be our current hottest summers.
This spells out drastic changes not only for the individual, but for the
economies of the world, and global politics.
Countries
with comparative advantages in certain resources and commodities will find
themselves unable to hold on to that advantage as temperatures change. Resource
scarcity will be on the rise and tensions between countries will increase with
them. While humans will likely adapt to climate change and its effects one can
be safe in saying that tensions around the world will be further exacerbated by
harder living conditions on all fronts, not just in the developing world.
We
continue to face down certain disaster with the elementary thought process of continued
advancement and growth bringing us out of this disaster paradigm. I worry that
this toxic paradigm might innervate itself into our economic and political
systems. With “new normals” emerging around the world governments must have the
abilities to adapt and survive. Hedging our bets on the all-powerful market
demanding change that is environmentally sustainable is a sluggish process and
one that is not likely to occur in time to avoid disaster. By 2080, the year estimated
that self-sustaining climate change will occur; all the continents of the world
will have completely changed climates. By that point, humanity will be forever
changed.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/9/study-predicts-imminentnewnormalofhotterclimates.html
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