The year will mark a point when humanity crossed into a new climate era — an age of “global boiling,” as the U.N. Secretary General called it.
Scars on the planet? … no one cares about that … people won’t notice until their house burns down, gets flooded, their sister got killed with a hailstone the size of a bowling ball, their Mother got swept away with a tornado or their town got wiped out with forest fire.
No one will care until mass migration starts occurring because people can’t live in a geographic region any more. No one will care until regional wars/conflicts start occurring due to the mass migrations.
And even then, people will keep fighting one another because that’s how we’re built … we see a problem, we blame others, punish them, make ourselves feel better temporarily and completely ignore the root of the problem until its too late. We’ve already done it dozens of times in the past with the fall of ancient civilizations … we are just another cycle of that same mentality, it’s just that our civilization this time is global instead of some small corner of the planet.
We’re cavemen and our technology has become unbelievable … but our brains are only a footstep away from leaving the cave we exited 10,000 years ago.
The problem is our collectively mentality … we’re animals and we are behaving like mindless animals. Evolution will answer the question of whether or not we will survive this period.
The more we understand and appreciate that, the more likely we might be able to do something about climate change.
