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| Greenland's immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change. Kadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times |
As New York Times writer, Justin Gillis, stressed recently, "The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that periodically summarizes climate science, concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress, heat waves and heavy rains are intensifying, coral reefs are dying, and fish and many other creatures are migrating toward the poles or in some cases going extinct."
As of TODAY, South Florida is seeing real sea level rise. The counties of Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, have real fear, right now, that they will be flooded out of their homes and businesses, not in 50 years, but within 10 years. Imagine what the rest of Florida will be like when these huge numbers of people, the majority of Florida's residents, are displaced and become virtual refugees....(this will also happen all over the US as well as the world.)
As many scientists have suggested, we are living in an extinction event, the sixth major extinction event that the Earth is believed to have had; only this time it's slightly different because homo sapiens are simply increasing the momentum. Whether you're a believer in anthropogenic climate change or not, logic should tell you that the sheer number of humans on the planet, consuming, consuming, consuming, cannot be upheld forever. Whether you believe it is our right as humans to pillage the planet or not, I think we can all agree that there is most definitely a carrying capacity for our way of life, especially in the United States. The energies that are being viewed as the cheapest and easiest to use took BILLIONS of years to form...why is it so hard to understand that this cannot last?
A preference to fossil fuels, a disbelief in anthropogenic climate change, a dislike for all things "liberal", whatever the reason, there simply has to be a better plan; a good solid plan A, because there cannot be a Plan B.
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