Climate change poses a 'near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilization,' and there's a chance society could collapse as soon as 2050 if serious actions aren't taken in the next decade, according to a new policy paper. - NBCNewsMACH
, climate change poses a"near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilization," and there's a good chance society could collapse as soon as 2050 if serious mitigation actions aren't taken in the next decade.
Published by the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Melbourne and authored by a climate researcher and a former fossil fuel executive, the paper's central thesis is that climate scientists are too restrained in their predictions of how climate change will affect the planet in the near future. [The current climate crisis, they say, is larger and more complex than any humans have ever dealt with before.
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