Racism is never on topic...
And (to get back on topic) if you think that a few people of a culture or color you don't like moving into your neighborhood is your biggest concern, you haven't been paying much attention (or have been spending a lot of energy denying reality).
...•Hundreds of millions of lives are at stake... should the world warm more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, which it will do as soon as 2040, if current trends continue.
•Nearly all coral reefs would die out,
•wildfires and heat waves would sweep across the planet annually, and
•the interplay between drought and flooding and temperature would mean that the world’s food supply would become dramatically less secure.
Avoiding that scale of suffering, the report says, requires such a thorough transformation of the world’s economy, agriculture, and culture that “there is no documented historical precedent.”
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/ ... -that.htmlAnd this is very likely soft-pedaling the real horrors that await in the not-so-distant future, and the depths that society would have to transform to avoid or even mitigate them:
...What has been called a genocidal level of warming is already our inevitable future. The question is how much worse than that it will get...
...We are on track for four degrees of warming, more than twice as much as most scientists believe is possible to endure without inflicting climate suffering on hundreds of millions or threatening at least parts of the social and political infrastructure we call, grandly, “civilization.”
The only thing that changed, this week, is that the scientists, finally, have hit the panic button.
The 'plan' seems to be (and really always has been since the beginning of industrial society) to save the 'economy' by obliterating the planet. Of course, the global economy will also explode anyway, and probably sooner rather than later, as it already nearly did in '08.
We will learn too late (if anyone is around to think about it) that slash-and-burn economies don't work so well on a global scale when there aren't other handy, habitable globes around to migrate to (in spite of KJ's dreamy optimism on that subject).