The Colossal Mistake of Underestimating Climate Change and the sixth Mass Extinction
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If the summer of 2018 on the Northern Hemisphere, namely the extreme weather conditions, unseen droughts, record temperatures, flashfloods, wildfires, crop losses, loss of habitat, record hurricane season, … , spanning the whole globe, did not make you aware about climate change you'll only understand when it is too late for you and your family. Do you live in a city, then move because there people will suffer and die: heatwaves, empty supermarkets, water shortages, violence, everybody for themselves, … .
I grow since many years my own food according to permaculture principles, started to work halftime, to stock and hide food, to harvest water during the winter, even started to think about a firearms license - to use wisely of course, ... . Indeed I see the future as grim as that.
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Although I keep track of climate change since years, this summer of 2018 and many ongoing or possible reinforcing feedbacks for climate change (albedo effect, methane from the permafrost, disappearance of the rainforests, coral bleaching, ocean currents stopping, destruction of ecosystems, …) shocked me and made me fear the worst for my children until tears. They are still innocent and they will witness an incredible amount of suffering and sadly enough experience it themselves and possibly be killed be it.
I fear - know now – that climate change and the sixth mass extinction are as real as the sun and are happening now. It is no longer a matter of hundreds of years, but of tens of years possibly years before our already sick, unnatural, asocial and weak human system starts collapsing under climate change and mass extinction. The best case would be a peaceful transition of society, but that seems not probable at all.
For more in depth information on the leading causes of climate change and the sixth mass extinction, see this article: The Colossal Mistake of Underestimating the Death Spreading Agriculture and Meat Industry.
And if you survive all of the above, what do you think will happen will the hundreds of nuclear installations on the globe once our system collapses? Turn off and lock the door? No, Praimfaya in the 100 on Netflix is not just a myth. As soon as the nuclear fuel and the decommissioned nuclear fuel are no longer sufficiently cooled - easily accomplished in a future world of water and energy shortages and of extreme weather phenomena - the result is hundreds of uncontrolled nuclear disasters all over the world because of the meltdown of the uncooled nuclear fuel.
Oooooooh what a shame that megalomania of the human species on such a magnificent planet. What a beautiful heritage for my children.
If you have doubts about the megalomania of and the contempt for the dangers and laws of nature by humanity, ask yourself the following question. Why does the human kind build a nuclear power plant in the earthquakes and tsunami's prone region Japan? After all it was enough that the tsunami put the engines for the cooling ponds out of order to interrupt the cooling of the nuclear fuel with all its disastrous consequences in Fukushima. Idem dito for the destructive activities of the human kind causing climate change and the sixth mass extinction. Very unfortunate these two phenomena will with almost certainty turn out disastrous on an enormous scale in space and time for the human species.
The article ”The Colossal Mistake of Underestimating Climate Change and the sixth Mass Extinction” was written by Paka Small.
Appendix A
The vicious circle of Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change is accelerating severely and drives together with fossil fuel burning a runaway and abrupt sixth mass extinction at a speed as never seen before in natural history. See below for a growing list of video's about large scale phenomena driving this vicious circle.
Phenomena: Arctic, Siberia, Alaska and Canada Thawing Permafrost, Siberia Wildfires, California Wildfires, Siberia Early Snow Melting:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Permafrost Apocalypse 2021 Mini-Documentary Climate Alert
Phenomena: Arctic Wildfires and Arctic Peat Fires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Arctic Wildfires and Peat Fires Darken Arctic and Emit ...
Phenomena: Northern Hemisphere Ice and Snow Albedo Decrease:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: NASA - Scientists Link Earlier Melting Of Snow To Dark ...
Phenomena: Arctic Ice Albedo Decrease:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Arctic Darkening from Spring Snow Cover Loss Exceeds ... 4
Phenomena: Arctic Ice Albedo Decrease:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Darkening Arctic with Loss of Sea-Ice and Snow Cover, ... 2
Phenomena: Arctic Ice Albedo Decrease:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2019 Minimum Extent
Phenomena: Greenland Ice Albedo Decrease:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Why Greenland's sheet ice is turning black
Phenomena: Antarctica Ice Albedo Decrease:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate. How ...
Phenomena: Siberia Thawing Permafrost:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Earth 8: Methane bursts caused by Siberian heat wave
Phenomena: Arctic Thawing Permafrost:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Arctic Methane. Has 2020 triggered a tipping point?
Phenomena: Arctic Thawing Permafrost:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Methane Hydrates - Interview Extracts With Natalia Shakhova
Phenomena: Arctic, Siberia, Yukutia Wildfires and Thawing Permafrost:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Wildfires in Arctic Circle release record of greenhouse gas
Phenomena: British Colombia Wildfires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Carbon emissions from wildfires shoot higher in B.C.
Phenomena: Western US, California, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Europe Wildfires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Climate change is making wildfires more extreme. Here’s how
Phenomena: Western US Wildfires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Sunday Journal: Apocalyptic Western wildfires
Phenomena: Amazon Wildfires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Edge of Extinction: Amazon Tipping Point?
Phenomena: Australia Wildfires, New South Wales, Victoria, Amazon, Siberia, Indonesia:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Climate change makes wildfires worse. Here's why.
Phenomena: Australia Wildfires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Sydney air quality 12 times worse than hazardous
Phenomena: Australia Wildfires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Aerial Footage Shows Scale of Fires in Australia
Phenomena: Australia’s Fraser Island Wildfires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Bush fires destroy forests on Australia’s Fraser Island
Phenomena: United Kingdom Surrey Wildfires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Chobham Common fire: Huge wildfire in Surrey as temps soar
Phenomena: Indonesia Peat Fires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Why are peatlands burning in Indonesia? BBC News
Phenomena: Indonesia Peat Fires:
Ecosystem Destruction(X)Climate Change: Indonesia on Fire
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