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On our current trajectory, the report warns, "planetary and human systems [are] reaching a 'point of no return' by mid-century, in which the prospect of a largely uninhabitable Earth leads to the breakdown of nations and the international order."
The only way to avoid the risks of this scenario is what the report describes as "akin in scale to the World War II emergency mobilization"—but this time focused on rapidly building out a zero-emissions industrial system to set in train the restoration of a safe climate.
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2050 is When Analysts Suspect Widespread Global Strife Will Begin
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You will have domestic happiness and faithful friends.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @07:29PM (1 child)
You ignore is the predictions of the children visionaries of Garabanal, something worse than a thousand earthquakes that will instill a fear like fire into the hearts of all believers and unbelievers is on the way: worldwide communism.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 17 2019, @03:20AM
Which isn't saying much. For example, I live in an area that generates hundreds of barely detectable earthquakes each year. Sure, worldwide Communism would suck, but it's not going to happen in the next few generations. Capitalism and democracy are succeeding too well for that to happen.