This week the Middle East had record 125 degF temperatures. This is unbearable. When does it become uninhabitable? It is ironic that the part of the world that most contributes to climate change by basing its existence on the gathering of fossil fuels to burn around the world may become the first part of the world that becomes uninhabitable.
All around the world cities are built on coastlines, from New York and Miami and New Orleans to Mumbai and Shanghai and Buenos Aires. Glaciers are melting into the ocean. If Antarctica, which has the vast majority of ice on the planet lets massive amounts of ice crash into the ocean, the sea rises and cities become uninhabitable.
Blizzards, hurricanes, floods, droughts, fire storms, killing of coral and marine life – all coming from climate change.
And climate change is driven by two massive worldwide corporate industries – fossil fuels and corporate agribusiness.
Burning, and extracting, fossil fuels throws massive amounts of carbon, and methane, into the atmosphere, which traps heat in the atmosphere which also heats the oceans – climate change.
And corporate farming clears wild forests, plows vast tracts of land – throwing tons of carbon into the atmosphere – plants mono-culture crops fertilized by chemicals that foul the waters, and creates billions of farm animals requiring the clearing of land and dumping methane into the atmosphere.
Our world is quickly becoming uninhabitable. One nightmare scenario is massive migrations of refugees fleeing uninhabitable parts of the word, with nowhere to go, which could well cause worldwide conflict and violence.
When do millions, or billions, of people start being forced to become climate change refugees? What happens then?
We have time to change, but it has to come from the demand of the populace, we can’t count on the industries to voluntarily end their destruction.
The smartest kids at MIT, Cal Tech, Berkeley, England, Germany, China, India and around the world are not dreaming of more efficient cars and fossil fuel power plants. They are dreaming of world changing breakthroughs in energy and food production.
I dream of their success, and very, very, very soon.
