We have been hearing and reading a great deal about Global Warming in recent years. During the 1980s Vice President, Al Gore championed that movement internationally with some famous speeches. His emphasis was that we were running out of time to change the trajectory of our march into worldwide calamity. Unless we did more to cut down on our consumption of fossil fuels. Or somehow intervene to mitigate the dire consequences of their use on such a massive international scale. What were the results of his crusade? Both India and China, are the two countries with the largest populations on planet earth. They built more gigantic coal plants to pump large quantities of soot and other air pollutants into our atmosphere. Currently, there are 1,074063 coal plants operating in China alone. In India, there are 233,130. In the USA there are 217,894. These three countries are the biggest air pollution offenders. Other industrialized economies such as Turkey, Germany, and Japan are contributors to the degradation of our atmosphere but to a lesser extent.
Around the world, nine out of 10 people breathe unhealthy air. Air pollution is now the biggest environmental risk for early death, responsible for more than 6 million premature deaths each year from heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and respiratory diseases. That’s more than the deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Children, the elderly, people with existing diseases, and minority and low-income communities are particularly vulnerable to adverse health outcomes and economic impacts, such as missed work days, from exposure to air pollution. Research suggests that long-term exposure to some pollutants increases the risk of emphysema more than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. And recent studies show air pollution can impact mental health, worker productivity and even stock market performance. (ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE FUND: Health Effects Of Air Pollution).
Most scientists around the world seem to be in agreement that our present freak weather pattern, is the result of global warming. The general consensus is that soon and very soon an unimaginable climate catastrophe will envelop planet earth. This worldwide calamity will lead to the destruction of at least fifty percent of all human life.
Fact 1: Over the last six decades, our governments have not only completely failed to fix the accelerating global warming emergency, but it is also now getting worse even faster.
Fact 2: By 2025-2031, the severity, frequency, and scale of extreme weather events will increase radically far beyond where it is now!
Fact 3: Today’s legitimate global fossil fuel reduction targets require all developed countries and governments (including China and India) to compel their citizens to reduce ALL fossil fuel use by about 75% by 2025.
Fact 4: Missing the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets (and consequently crossing the atmospheric carbon threshold of carbon 425-450 parts per million [ppm]) means we also will trigger the first extinction-accelerating global warming tipping point, and we will enter the second phase of runaway global heating.
Fact 5: Because our governments did not effectively reduce global fossil fuel use and global heating during the last six decades, crossed climate tipping points, climate feedbacks, and accelerating climate consequences will cause the unavoidable extinction of about half of humanity by about mid-century.
Fact 6: With the little remaining time left to act, the only effective way to save what will remain of humanity post-mid-century from an even worse near-total extinction process is for our governments to get close to the 75% global fossil fuel reduction 2025 target as soon as possible before 2031.
Fact 7: Only our governments’ immediate and massive 75% global fossil fuel reduction actions can save us at this late stage of climate destabilization. Only massive and intense government action can protect the remaining half of post-mid-century humanity from an even worse, near-total extinction process occurring during the period of 2050 to about 2080.
Fact 8: There is still hope to save at least half of humanity, but only if our governments act NOW! To fix the runaway global heating extinction emergency, we must finally use the legitimate 2025 global fossil fuel reduction target of 75% and execute a comprehensive fossil fuel reduction plan that will work.
Fact 9: Despite being highly probable and almost certain that half of humanity will perish by about mid-century because of sixty years of government climate change ineffectiveness, there is still much good news. While humanity can no longer escape a climate-caused mass die-off and its consequent global turmoil, humanity can still learn from these painful climate catastrophe lessons.
Fact 10: Everything our governments are doing currently to fix the climate emergency is still “far too little, far too late.” Desperate individual actions to reduce personal fossil fuel use alone will not save us at this 11th hour. We are way beyond that point today.
(JOB ONE FOR HUMANITY: Our Current Climate Change Condition Will Soon Adversely Affect Your Daily Life, Updated January 27, 2023).
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