Because of global warming our future looks sober. This is what it will look like.
An article from 2007 which gives an overview of the devastation and horror we’ll face if we don’t stop using fossil fuels.
Where no refuge is available, civil war and a collapse into racial or communal conflict seems the likely outcome. Isolated survivalism, however, may be as impracticable as dialling for room service. How many of us could really trap or kill enough game to feed a family? Even if large numbers of people did successfully manage to fan out into the countryside, wildlife populations would quickly dwindle under the pressure. Supporting a hunter-gatherer lifestyle takes 10 to 100 times the land per person that a settled agricultural community needs. A large-scale resort to survivalism would turn into a further disaster for biodiversity as hungry humans killed and ate anything that moved. Including, perhaps, each other. Invaders do not take kindly to residents denying them food. History suggests that if a stockpile is discovered, the householder and his family may be tortured and killed. Look for comparison to the experience of present-day Somalia, Sudan or Burundi, where conflicts over scarce land and food are at the root of lingering tribal wars and state collapse.
The Statue of Liberty in New York will be gone and so will the city.
Cities and towns around the world will be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels and mega-storms. Saltwater will penetrate deeply into continents destroying the few fresh water supplies remaining. Heat domes will linger for months with countless thousands killed by the intense heat, torrential rivers of precipitation will create flooding so severe it will erase the places and the people who live there, and billions will die from starvation.
Greed, selfishness and the reckless pursuit of profits over people is killing planet Earth and all of us along with it.
