Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?: Scientific American
...unless economic growth skidded to a halt before reaching the edge, they warned, society was headed for overshoot—and a splat that could kill billions.
Don't look now but we are running in midair, a new book asserts. In 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years (Chelsea Green Publishing), Jorgen Randers of the BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, and one of the original World3 modelers, argues that the second half of the 21st century will bring us near apocalypse in the form of severe global warming. Dennis Meadows, professor emeritus of systems policy at the University of New Hampshire who headed the original M.I.T. team and revisited World3 in 1994 and 2004, has an even darker view. The 1970s program had yielded a variety of scenarios, in some of which humanity manages to control production and population to live within planetary limits (described as Limits to Growth). Meadows contends that the model's sustainable pathways are no longer within reach because humanity has failed to act accordingly...automobile consumers do not pay for lives lost from extreme climatic conditions caused by warming from their vehicles' carbon emissions...
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Why the Climate Debate Is Over, and Why Both Sides Continue to Debate Anyway
Again... If we have passed the point of no return - eat drink and be merry. And fire all the climate scientists.
And, if the science is settled, then fire all the climate scientists
The tooth fairy, an honest climate scientist and an old drunk were walking along when they suddenly spotted a hundred-dollar bill laying in the street.
Who gets it?
The old drunk of course, the other two are mythological creatures.
I don't fear catastrophic man-made climate change.
However, I am terrified of climate-change leglislators.
Those billions who will perish won't have died because of "global warming". They will have died due to Government policy to prevent it.
Typical progressive stupidity kills.
It is stuff like this that made me quit Scientific American many years ago. They became a left-wing rag.
Scientific American used to be a wonderful magazine. I have decided not to read it any more. I'm starting to reread my 50 year collection of earlier editions.
We were past the point of no return when Adam ate the apple Eve gave him. It is a three letter word that puts us at the point of no return every time; SIN!
I totally agree with Anonymous. Fire the Climate Scientists!
We just heard that over the last 3 years Obama has spent $70 billion on "climate change activities." Insane, and that's not the full accounting. Since 1990, we can be sure that the world has squandered in total trillions of dollars. The villain: agenda driven, deception filled climate scientists. Get rid of them.
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