"Civilisation developed, and constructed extensive infrastructure, during a period of unusual climate stability, the Holocene, now almost 12,000 years in duration. That period is about to end," the scientists warn. Humanity cannot afford to burn the Earth's remaining underground reserves of fossil fuel. "To do so would guarantee dramatic climate change, yielding a different planet from the one on which civilisation developed and for which extensive physical infrastructure has been built," they say.
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You put the likelihood that we humans will get our shit together for the first time in human history and do the things that will avert total environmental collapse vs. the likelihood that we will keep on going just the way we are…We’re totally screwed.
I’ve a terrible feeling that you might be right.