What does climate collapse look like? I don’t want to find out, but it looks like people alive today will actually see it happen in their lifetimes.  The IPCC just released their final report on climate change on Monday and it’s devastating. Naturally, the American TV media will barely cover it. We have the equivalent of a massive asteroid barrelling towards earth, on a trajectory to wipe out all life on earth, and the TV talking heads won’t seriously discuss it, or what to do about it. Let that sink in for a moment.

Here is the report from The Guardian, a UK media newspaper that still writes about climate change on a regular basis. You can find this story in major US newspapers too, but you will have to search for it. Extinction of all life on earth is no longer of interest to most reporters or most Americans. I’ve decided to ‘shove it down your throats’ anyway, due to the fact that I’m hopelessly “woke”.

Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth assessment report on Monday.

The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.”

In sober language, the IPCC set out the devastation that has already been inflicted on swathes of the world. Extreme weather caused by climate breakdown has led to increased deaths from intensifying heatwaves in all regions, millions of lives and homes destroyed in droughts and floods, millions of people facing hunger, and “increasingly irreversible losses” in vital ecosystems.

Monday’s final instalment, called the synthesis report, is almost certain to be the last such assessment while the world still has a chance of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the threshold beyond which our damage to the climate will rapidly become irreversible.

Do you really love extreme heat and violent storms? Because they are about to increase exponentially, if governments don’t get their shit together and ban fossil fuels.

Maybe people should consider planning to stop having new babies if there is to be no future for those babies?  That is where we are right now with the threat from climate change to all life on earth, including humans. This is not a joke and it’s not hyperbole. The takeaway on this report is stark: We are out of time.

Read the rest of this article with links to the report on The Guardian’s website.

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